{"id":440947,"date":"2026-09-19T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440947\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:38:10","slug":"dallas-weather-hot-windy-saturday-raises-north-texas-wildfire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440947\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas weather: Hot, windy Saturday raises North Texas&#8217; wildfire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/weather\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Texas<\/a> is set to swelter Saturday during another hot and windy day, with low humidity and dry conditions raising the threat of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/weather\/article\/prevent-report-wildfires-north-texas-fire-risk-22386661.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are forecast to be in the high 70s early Saturday morning before 8 a.m. North Texans may feel a slight breeze Saturday, with wind gusts reaching 16 mph, according to the weather service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main weather concern Saturday will be the elevated fire risk, as low humidity, dry vegetation and breezy winds could contribute to starting a fire. Dallas-Fort Worth is forecast to face a high or very high fire danger Saturday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twc.tamu.edu\/tfd\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas Weather Connection<\/a> and Texas A&amp;M Forest Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Texas may see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/weather\/article\/dallas-fort-worth-cold-front-22433010.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weak cold front<\/a> later this weekend, potentially bringing rain to some parts of Dallas-Fort Worth. However, precipitation amounts are unlikely to make a \u201cdent\u201d in the region\u2019s drought, the weather service said in its Friday afternoon forecast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures may drop below 100 degrees next week, with highs forecast to stay under 95 degrees through Thursday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/weather\/article\/when-does-fall-start-2026-22414292.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomical fall<\/a> begins Tuesday, but temperatures are still expected to generally remain above normal for this time of year, according to the weather service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY: Sun, clouds and hot. Record: 102 (1956). High: 99. Wind: S 10-15 mph.<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY: Plenty of sunshine. Low chance of rain Sunday night. Record: 102 (1953). Low: 77. High: 99. Wind: S 10-15 mph.<\/p>\n<p>MONDAY: Partly sunny with a 20% chance of a stray storm. Record: 99 (2005). Low: 77. High: 97. Wind: E 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY (FALL BEGINS): Sun and clouds, warm. Low: 75. High: 94. Wind: E 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny and warm. Low: 74. High: 96. Wind: E 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY: Mixture of sun and clouds, warm. Low: 75. High: 95. Wind: E 5-10 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas is set to swelter Saturday during another hot and windy day, with low humidity and dry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,88395,1971,58240,17921,88031,88032,88030,87998,112778,88643,172],"class_list":["post-440947","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-hot-weather","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news-weather","tag-service","tag-tp-daily-weather-forecast","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-weather","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-fire","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440947","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=440947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}