Dallas weather: November 12 evening forecast

All right, let's take a look at the updated drought monitor here and boy, what a stark difference between areas to our southwest like Stephenville and Comanche County, Hamilton County that have received some beneficial rain in recent weeks and they're not showing any drought conditions. On the flip side, you look off to the east and northeast of the Metroplex, places like Paris and Sulphur Springs, down into Kaufman County, Van Zandt County. That's extreme drought. That's way up there on the drought classification scale. It's just one step below exceptional drought, which is the worst. That's out in far northeast Texas up towards the Texarkana area and we're kind of somewhere in between here in the metroplex with in general moderate to severe drought conditions. So needless to say much of the area needs some rain and it is in the forecast later this weekend beginning late Saturday afternoon Saturday night that's when the first rain showers will start to move in from the west and then a good solid 80 percent chance of rain during the day on Sunday. How much are we looking at? Well, this won't bust the drought, but it'll put a small dent in it for sure. On average, our computer models are spitting out an inch or perhaps up to an inch and a quarter of rainfall across a good part of the area with a little lighter accumulations to our southeast. High temperature today once again was way above the average at 79. 68 is our normal for this time of the year and then 85 and 21 year records. That's Lake Tawakoni. Look at how calm the water is there at the present time. 77 Love Field, 77 at DFW, 75 at this hour at Alliance. We're down to 72 in Granbury, 71 Bowie, 68 off to the east in Mineola, and presently 75 at this hour in Corsicana. It is all quiet across the region. We're seeing bright sunshine at all locations, 76 down in Austin at this hour. Meantime, we look out west, and there are actually two disturbances we're tracking. One off the coast of California. That's going to bring the cloud cover in here very quickly during the day on Saturday, and perhaps a few showers with it late Saturday. That's our primary rainmaker, that bigger, stronger area of low pressure spiraling west. We'll see a few showers off to our west and then look for a very chilly, not a sopping wet day on Sunday. Today, widespread rain. We're not looking for any severe weather, that's for sure. The air is going to be very stable, and high temperatures are likely going to struggle just to reach the middle 50s during the afternoon. Clear skies tonight, just a light breeze, cooler than it was last night, with a low down to 49 degrees. Up to 68 degrees tomorrow, sunshine giving way to some clouds late in the day. Mostly cloudy Saturday, a 30% chance of rain late. That balloons all the way to an 80% chance Sunday, 56 degrees, 58, mostly cloudy Monday, and a nice warming trend Tuesday through Thursday of next week.