Across Dallas-Fort Worth, some residents have been theorizing that July has been remarkably rainy. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s an understandable position \u2014 over the first 15 days of the month, at least trace amounts of precipitation were recorded on 13 of them. But depending on how the rainfall data gets sliced and diced, it can end up looking a lot less extraordinary. <\/p>\n
Here are the details on this month\u2019s showers:<\/p>\n
It depends on where you measure<\/p>\n
D-FW Weather Wise<\/p>\n
Summer showers often aren\u2019t as large of a system as spring storms, only affecting pockets of a region like Dallas-Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
In the first half of the month, DFW International Airport, the official climate measurement spot for the region, got 1.5 inches of rain. But much of the region saw more than that, with sites in Arlington, Fort Worth, Plano and Garland all measuring between 2-3 inches. And even more rain was recorded in central Dallas, the Park Cities and Mesquite, where residents got 4.5-5 inches.<\/p>\n
Allison Prater, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said those summer storms are known as \u201cpopcorn\u201d showers, since they pop up on the radar and subsequently fall off just as quickly. She also said these storms don\u2019t move as much, usually sticking to one spot and raining on itself until the air is out of water.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, Prater said North Texas has had a more moist, tropical environment, which encourages heavier rainfall when showers do develop. <\/p>\n
Historical comparisons<\/p>\n
The 30-year average of July rainfall for the metro area, or more specifically at DFW Airport, is 2.08 inches. The region would have been well on its way to beating the average if showers had continued, but conditions have taken a turn toward dry, sunny days for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
The weather service does not have any rain in the forecast for the next week, and the Climate Prediction Center has North Texas on the border of below-average precipitation chances for the rest of the month. If it doesn\u2019t rain again in July, the region\u2019s official precipitation total will actually end up below the norm.<\/p>\n
That possibility is particularly surprising given the 13 days rain has been measured, compared to the July average of six days with at least trace precipitation. Usually, more days of rainfall result in a higher precipitation total for the month, but some years buck that trend with a particularly heavy downpour or a series of sprinkles.<\/p>\n
But this year\u2019s likely combination \u2014 lots of rain days with relatively low cumulative water \u2014 isn\u2019t unheard of. A similar set of circumstances occurred in 2021.<\/p>\n
The region\u2019s high number of rainy days also makes more sense when folding in the geographic data. DFW Airport appears to have repeatedly been on the edge of the summer showers, only collecting stray droplets when most of the water fell elsewhere. Only two days, July 12 and 14, make up most of this month\u2019s precipitation at the airport.<\/p>\n
In terms of how the entire summer \u2014 June, July and August \u2014 compares to other years, it\u2019s still a little early to say. The 30-year average for the entire summer is a little over eight inches, something the region is still far off from, with the airport only approaching four inches. But more intense summer showers may still arrive in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across Dallas-Fort Worth, some residents have been theorizing that July has been remarkably rainy. It\u2019s an understandable position…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7712,7371,7372,358,11040,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,527,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-73414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas-fortworth","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-thunderstorm","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-water","22":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875840872457254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}