North Texas Looks Ahead to A Wet and Dangerous Weather Week

DALLAS, TX — If you're one of those people who sleeps like a baby when a Texas thunderstorm rumbles through, get ready for a drowsy week.

Most of the week's forecast calls for rain, heavy showers and the possibility of flash flooding with some storms, according to the National Weather Service. The entire Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex remains under a flash flood warning through the early hours of Wednesday, with an expectation of as much as a six inches of rainfall, and possibly up to eight inches of rain in specific areas.

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The greatest risk at the moment is for lighting and heavy soaking rains, but the National Weather Service has also cautioned that flooding is a danger in urban areas where drainage is substandard, or are considered low-lying. Such spots are prone to quickly accumulating and rising waters from rivers, creeks and streams.

The weekend was a busy one for rescue crews, who came to the assistance of those trapped in roadways that were flooded out in the Love Field vicinity. There was also a briefly issued tornado warning in Dallas County Sunday afternoon, when weather watchers say a tornado had been spotted on radar, and hail was reported in the area. By 2: 30 p.m., the National Weather Service had canceled that warning.

Otherwise, it will be unseasonably cool, with lower-than-normal highs in the 70s and just past 80; look for lows pleasantly in the upper 60s.

The coming weekend also looks like a wet one for the moment, with thunderstorms scattered throughout the region until blue skies return a week from now.

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