DALLAS —
This is just cruel at this point.
I mean, look at the expected rainfall across the U.S. over the next 10 days. Something sticks out like a dry, sore thumb when you do: The whole country is pretty much looking forward to some precipitation in the near future... but, nope, not here in Texas!
Instead, the forecast shows a massive void of rain over nearly the entire Lone Star State.
So what's going on here?
Well, you can thank stubborn high pressure for this problem.
A front that we were desperately hoping would slide farther south into North Texas looks to remain stalled just to our north along the read river. That's where you'll see the purples and reds on the rainfall forecast map.
All those areas -- from Kansas to the Ohio Valley -- could pick up several inches of rain in the coming days.
But us? Still looking dry as a bone down here.
What about us? Can we expect any rain at all?
Friday and Saturday may bring a few spotty showers or storms to North Texas -- especially north of the Metroplex -- but none of this will be the drought-busting, -denting or even -scratching rain we've all been hoping we'd soon get.
Just look at our pathetic, tiny, miniscule, pitiful, laughable rain chances on Friday and Saturday.
Yeesh.
See? It's pathetic.
There's a pretty solid chance, frankly, that the rain-free streak at DFW Airport will only continue to lengthen well beyond its current 54-day streak -- the fifth-longest such dry spell of its recorded kind.
There's a reason we're seeing all these burn bans across the region of late, folks. It's for our collective safety!