Many parts of North Texas are expected to receive rain this week with some minor flooding concerns west of Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the National Weather Service.
There is about a 30% chance that the Dallas-Fort Worth area will get more than 3 inches of rain through Thursday evening, according to NWS Fort Worth.
“It will be on and off; it’s not going to be 100% all throughout the week. Not everyone will see rain each day, but most locations will receive at least an inch of rain by Thursday evening,” said Allison Prater, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
Peak temperatures in Dallas and Fort Worth were expected in the 90s Monday afternoon, according to the weather service. A cold front coming in Tuesday will push temperatures lower later this week, Prater said.
Storm winds are expected to be “sub-severe,” Prater said, adding that the strongest storm activity is expected closer to Friday.
Parts of North Texas west of Tarrant County received rain Monday morning, but most of the storms dissipated as they reached the Interstate 35 corridor, Prater said. Precipitation this year is still lower than normal compared to previous years, she said.
On Friday, a storm knocked out power to thousands of customers across North Texas.
Kerri Dunn, a spokeswoman from Oncor, said most of the outages the company responded to were related to strong wind gusts blowing debris and vegetation into power lines. The longest outages were in Tarrant and Johnson counties, she said.
Dunn said the company’s in-house meteorologist is monitoring weather conditions expected in North Texas this week.
“As we see where those potentially severe weather could be location, we’ll be prepositioning personnel, resources and equipment and we’ll be ready to respond if we do see outage impact,” Dunn said.
