{"id":211766,"date":"2026-03-19T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/211766\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:33:08","slug":"hottest-temperatures-of-the-year-heading-for-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/211766\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest temperatures of the year heading for North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/04 - CT_heatwave.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Pu Reh, 13, goes for a header while soccer training at Capp Smith Park in Watauga on Thursday, June 27, 2024. Temperatures rose to over 100 degrees as the summer heatwave begins to heat up.\" alt=\"Pu Reh, 13, goes for a header while soccer training at Capp Smith Park in Watauga on Thursday, June 27, 2024. Temperatures rose to over 100 degrees as the summer heatwave begins to heat up.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Pu Reh, 13, goes for a header while soccer training at Capp Smith Park in Watauga on Thursday, June 27, 2024. Temperatures rose to over 100 degrees as the summer heatwave begins to heat up.<\/p>\n<p>                Chris Torres<\/p>\n<p>            ctorres@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n<p>    Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking heat is in store for North Texas this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, conditions will be warm and sunny on Thursday, March 19, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/fwd\/\">National Weather Service Fort Worth<\/a>. Daily highs will be in the upper 80s, which is higher than normal but several degrees below the record for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The first chance to break a heat record comes on Friday, March 20, with forecasted high of 93 degrees. If that temperature comes to pass, it will break the 92-degree record set for March 20 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas will get close to the record on Saturday, March 21, with a 95-degree high. The record for March 21 came in 1916 at 100 degrees, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/fwd\/dfw_records_normals\">according to NWS climate data.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another record-breaking day is in store for Sunday, March 22. The 97-degree forecasted high would be greater than the 93-degree record recorded in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>While temperatures will be hot this weekend, triple digits are not in the forecast. In addition, rain is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 In case you missed it&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>        Warm weather continues next week<\/p>\n<p>After the hot weekend, temperatures will cool down some heading into next week.<\/p>\n<p>Daily highs around 80 degrees are in store for Monday, March 23, followed by the mid-80s on Tuesday, March 24. Temperatures begin to heat up midweek with highs in the low 90s on Wednesday, March 25.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions appear to be rain-free next week as of now, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STAFF_BRAYDEN_GARCIA.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Brayden Garcia\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Garcia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Brayden Garcia is a service journalism reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Brayden mainly writes about weather and all things Taylor Sheridan-related.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pu Reh, 13, goes for a header while soccer training at Capp Smith Park in Watauga on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,15411,39258,82912,68009,12301],"class_list":["post-211766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-weather","tag-north-texas-forecast","tag-north-texas-heat","tag-north-texas-rain","tag-north-texas-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}