Weather

Two-year-old Boi Sang died on Sunday afternoon. He’d been left in his parent’s Honda Pilot in the parking lot of Dallas Matu Christian Church, which caters to the city’s Burmese population. He was the fifth Texas child to die after being left in a hot car so far this year, and…

This afternoon, it comes. The storm that will wash away the unfaithful and vindicate doomsday prophet Jim Schutze is slated to hit Dallas, bringing with it a torrent of water, hail, wind and tweets about Pete Delkus’ rolled up sleeves. “We’ll have what looks like a line of thunderstorms develop…

Every three hours, a satellite called the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory records the rain and snow that falls, worldwide. This week, the big precipitation story is Texas. East Texas got 6 to 12 inches, with similar totals for eastern Oklahoma. Houston tallied the highest downfall, at nearly 15 inches.  “The main culprit…

Travis Koscheski has driven dangerously close to a tornado before, decades ago when he rode through east Texas, but it wasn’t as bad as this one. The 50-year-old Walmart employee was sitting in his living room Saturday night, at the Landmark at Lake Village West apartment complex where he lives,…

In the big picture, you could say Rowlett was lucky. No one died when an EF3 tornado tore through the northeastern suburb the day after Christmas, unlike in neighboring Garland, where an EF4 twister from the same storm killed eight people as it tossed cars and trucks into the air…

Note: Gavin Cleaver, the Observer’s former web editor and acolyte in the Church of Pete Delkus, WFAA weather god, had to leave us and return to his home in England last year. We miss his funny accent, his terrible taste in barbecue, his adorable insistence that soccer is a spectator…

Monday, August 10 was one of the hottest days of the year. Government thermometers recorded a high temperature of 107 degrees. It was stupid, eyeball-searing heat any half-sentient creature — whose ancestors, after all, had the wherewithal to pass their genes along to subsequent generations — would presumably have the self-preserving…

If nothing is done address climate change, says a new study commissioned by some really rich people and some ex-politicians, Texas is going be practically unlivable by the time we get to the back half of the 21st century. Average temperatures will increase, the study says, leading to more than…

The heaviest rain from Tropical Storm Bill is now expected to arrive in Dallas on Wednesday, rather than overnight Tuesday, as was originally forecast. The biggest risk for flooding, the most likely severe weather from Bill, will happen days after the rain, Rocky Vaz with the Dallas Office of Emergency…

Texas has suffered through years with basically no rain. As my West Texas-dwelling grandmother was fond of telling my drought-bemoaning grandfather, it shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, she’d say, we live in the middle of the desert. In May though, across the state and in Dallas specifically, the seemingly…

Three weeks ago, we told you that Texas’ almost three years long drought was finally, thankfully, breaking. The latest numbers released by the U.S. Drought Monitor Thursday show that, save for a couple of areas of limited dry areas in West Texas and the Panhandle, Texas isn’t even experiencing any…

Thanks to the “large-scale” rains in the last week, the severe drought that’s consumed Texas for the better part of three years has been largely slaked, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Texas no longer has any areas that are classified as “D4” by the monitor. D4 or exceptional drought…

As of 2:10 p.m., it’s officially springtime in North Texas. The National Weather Service has issued its first 2015 tornado watch for Dallas County…

Dear Dallas Weather: Stop trying to be Seattle. If we wanted to live in Seattle, we’d buy a train, fill it with enough Bob Armstrong queso to last us a lifetime and drive it there. But we don’t want that. We want to live in Dallas: the land of patio…

Sure, you know it’s raining and today has a general crapturdness about it, weather-wise. But what does the rest of the week have in store? We’re so glad you asked. We’ve got the best 5-day forecast in Dallas for you, right here. Behold: Your 5-day forecast as Movie Villains…

Yesterday, it rained on and off for the whole day. And today, it appears that the rain is here to stay all day. Look for that text about your kid’s school closing. It’s only a matter of time. Upon hearing that school districts were considering closing early due to “heavy…

If the National Weather Service is to be believed, Dallas will receive further proof that climate change is a lie created, just like the internet, by former vice president Al Gore. After an arctic front moves through North Texas overnight Tuesday, rapidly dropping temperatures will be accompanied by freezing rain,…

Lest you have any illusions about Dallasites’ becoming less car dependent or more adept at driving in winter weather, here’s the Google traffic map for the city as of about noon (the red is bad, very, very, bad). And heaven forbid you think about taking an Uber. As of writing,…

As foretold by Saint Delkus the Wise’ Monday prophecy, Dallas is going to get some more shitty weather, starting this morning. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for most of North Texas, including Dallas County, that predicts up to two inches of snow on Friday, then…