Dry, windy conditions are expected to persist across drought-stricken parts of Texas this weekend, but for parts of the Midwest and Southeast, storms are likely to return.
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00:00It's been bone dry there.
00:01We definitely all the rainfall to help out,
00:03especially across West TX where they're
00:05still experiencing an exceptional drought.
00:06That's the once in a decade type of drought.
00:09And you look at the rainfall that
00:11we've had since February 1st.
00:13Comparing that to historical averages,
00:14Midland hasn't had a drop of
00:16rainfall since February 1st and
00:18Brownsville, Albuquerque, El Paso,
00:19San Antonio, same thing.
00:20No rainfall for the most part here
00:22over the past almost seven weeks.
00:26That's a long time,
00:27especially as we head into the wet
00:29and dry springtime, right?
00:30But this dry pattern is going to
00:32continue here as we had throughout
00:33the day on Saturday, even as we had
00:35in a Sunday not really looking
00:37like a good chance of rainfall.
00:38Wind gusts right now are still
00:40clocking in in that 20 to 30 mph
00:42range, especially here from West
00:43TX towards the I-35 corridor.
00:45That is where we're going to see
00:46the highest potential of fire
00:48danger here as we head into tonight.
00:50It's been dry, it's been windy,
00:51and you get that combination
00:53of those two things.
00:54This is the result right there,
00:55especially across West TX from
00:56Wichita Falls down through Abilene,
00:58down through San Angelo.
00:59That's where we're going to see the
01:01highest potential for fire danger
01:02here as we head into tonight.
01:04As we head into tomorrow,
01:05mild weather across the forecast
01:07here for I-35 from Wichita,
01:08down through Oklahoma City,
01:09Dallas, even down through Austin.
01:11But enjoy it,
01:11because wait till you see what
01:13I have in store for Sunday.
01:15Fire risk here on Saturday
01:16afternoon will include Western
01:18Oklahoma, pretty much all of West
01:19TX and pretty much all of Eastern
01:21New Mexico, but the highest potential
01:23for fire danger here on Saturday
01:25is going to include Big Spring,
01:27Midland, Odessa,
01:28all the way down the I-20 and
01:30I-10 corridor towards El Paso.
01:31That's where we're watching out for
01:33the highest potential fire danger.
01:35And then as we head into Saturday night,
01:37the next chance of severe weather
01:39will be in the forecast here along
01:41the I-70 corridor from pretty much
01:42Lawrence, Kansas all the way to
01:44Saint Louis and then from far
01:46northeastern Oklahoma along I-44
01:47from Miami all the way up into Saint Louis.
01:49So that's what we're going to be
01:51tracking for the severe weather
01:53threat late Saturday.
01:53And then as we head into Sunday
01:55afternoon, another threat of
01:56severe weather here stretching
01:58from the I-70 corridor,
01:59pretty much Indianapolis all
02:00the way to Dallas and Austin.
02:01That's where we're going to see
02:03that chance of severe weather here
02:04and the highest potential of severe
02:06weather as we had throughout Sunday
02:08afternoon and as we head into
02:09parts of Sunday evening.