This Weekend's Dallas Weather Forecast Calls for Snow, Ice, Other Assorted Peril
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...
View ArticleWeather Update: Dallas Almost Shut Down by Nominal Amount of Snow
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,...
View ArticleRain, Sleet, Snow All Expected in Dallas Today, Because the World Is Weird
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...
View ArticleIt's Been Raining in Dallas for a Couple Hours Straight, Better Shut This...
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...
View ArticleYour 5-Day Dallas Forecast as Movie Villains
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...
View ArticleYour 5-Day Dallas Forecast as '90s Pop Music Hits
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...
View ArticleDallas Is on a Tornado Watch for the First Time in 2015
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...
View ArticleTexas' Drought Is Basically Over
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...
View ArticleMy Memorial Day Vacation at the Trinity Beach in Downtown Dallas
You spent Memorial Day weekend doing your holiday thing, whatever. I spent it doing mine – watching the flood levels on the Trinity River downtown. Takes all kinds, right? Most of my flood watching –...
View ArticleFlood Insurance Is Socialism, and Not in a Good Way
Andrew Revkin of The New York Times, on PBS the other day talking about floods in Texas, spoke of our propensity for building stuff in areas at high risk for flooding, which he attributed in part to an...
View ArticleTexas Rainfall in May Set Records, Killed Drought, Replenished Water Supply
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...
View ArticleDallas Readies Emergency Operations Center as City Braces for More Floods
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...
View ArticleBill Has Slowed Down, Worst of Storm Now Expected Wednesday Afternoon
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...
View ArticleMore than Heavy Rain Is Flooding Local Lakes. We Are, too.
You know what this unusual season of heavy rain and flooding is really? It’s Mother Nature giving us a big wake-up call. She's telling us we need to go all the way back to zero. We need to rethink...
View ArticlePhilip Kingston Wants Us to Stop and Rethink Flood Control
Here's a mental exercise: Think of the rain that falls on your head as if it were continuing to fall through the soil beneath your feet. That's how it's supposed to work. Rain falls fast through the...
View ArticleTexas Is Totally Screwed, Says New Climate Change Report
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...
View ArticleKaty Trail Joggers Brave Blistering 103° Heat For Some Reason
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...
View ArticleNot Doom-Saying, Not Cassandratizing, but Keep an Eye on Those Lakes, OK?
First of all, I hope you will at least extend me the courtesy of accepting that I do not want to see the city of Dallas swept away to Galveston on the foaming teeth of a tsunami, especially if it...
View ArticleLive From London: Your Holiday Weekend Weather Apocaforecast
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,...
View ArticleYou Think Flooding Was Bad Last Weekend? Better Grab a Bible.
Ten weeks ago I had my hair shirt on with my sandwich board sign hanging from my shoulders predicting possible Biblical-scale flooding catastrophe as we entered the season of the fall rains. Might be...
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