Just as a cold front finishes sweeping Texas, dousing major metros in rain and slamming towns with severe storm threats, another burst of northern air is set to hit the Lone Star State. While short lived, temperatures will see a significant dip – a welcome decline before a sweltering spring week begins.
This second wind of cooler air should breach the Texas border by Saturday night, May 9. While it isn’t currently expected to bring freezing or snow to the Texas Panhandle, it will stave off some of the scorching days inevitable for Texas towns as summer looms on the calendar.
“A frontal passage on Saturday night into Sunday will temper high temperatures down to the high-70’s to low 80’s. However, it will not last long as the beginning of next week we see the potential for record breaking high temperatures across the Panhandles from Mon-Wed.,” the National Weather Service Amarillo office reports.
For a short while this weekend, temperatures in this region will hover in the mid-70s at the hottest and dip into the low-40s overnight. But it’ll take a bit longer to reach cities in North Texas, namely the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, which will also see a short reprieve from the heat thanks to this cold front.
While the Texas Panhandle should remain relatively sunny amid the temperature drop, Dallas will see low-level storm odds creeping in Sunday afternoon into the evening. But it cuts a warming trend short, keeping afternoon highs in the low 80s and nighttime lows in the low 60s.
“On Sunday, guidance is in decent agreement on another cold frontal intrusion during the daytime which will offer better convective chances of 30%-50% across most of the area,” the National Weather Service DFW office predicts.
Even further south, in South Central Texas cities like San Antonio, Austin and across the Texas Hill Country, the cold front will have a weaker impact. But it does mean temperatures will stay short of 90 degrees for a bit longer.
It sweeps this region of Texas by Sunday night, sinking afternoon highs from nearly 90 to the mid-80s through Wednesday. Evenings will continue to feel much cooler hovering in the mid- to upper-60s.