Rodeo of Rain for Texas

The atmosphere has been lassoing moisture-rich storms in Texas and other portions of the South Central states of late and indications are this rainfall rodeo will continue in the short-term.

Rains have come to much of Texas this winter and more rain will fall on portions of the Lone Star State into the weekend and beyond.

The overall weather pattern will continue to bring episodes of rain to very needy and less needy areas of the state into next week.

A slow-moving storm will continue to drop substantial rain in central and western counties through Saturday.

There is the potential for over an inch of additional rain in some locations, which have already received over a half inch at the end of this week.

This particular storm will wander eastward and will spread northward late in the weekend into early next week.

Since areas from northeastern Texas to part of the lower Mississippi Valley are not experiencing a rainfall shortage, the risk for flash flooding will again increase as the storm will continue to produce heavy rainfall along the way, especially where thunderstorm downpours repeat.

Indications are that yet another episode of rain may evolve for portions of Texas during the middle and latter part of next week. Details on this rainfall potential will unfold in the coming days.

During the middle to latter part of the spring, a drier pattern may again evolve for central and western Texas into the Four Corners, depending in part on the behavior of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Dallas is coming off its sixth-wettest winter (December-February) on record with 12.41 inches. The wettest winter was the 1931-1932 season. This winter was just ahead of the 2000-2001 season when 12.18 inches of rain fell.

Many places in western and central Texas, western Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico still need more rain, beyond what this storm will provide.

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