Rain Continues

Dalhart Weather Review

By Aaron Graves

Another favorable weather pattern has arrived, already bringing up to 3 inches of rain in Dallam County. Rain continues in the forecast today through Saturday. 

It began raining Sunday evening as thunderstorms developed in western Hartley County and just seemed to sit in one place. Similar slow moving storms developed over Dalhart after midnight. Officially, 1.01” was recorded at the airport and relayed to the Amarillo office of the National Weather Service. This brings our July precipitation total up to 2.15”. Our year to date total is 7.76”. 

My rain gauge on the southeast side of Dalhart captured 1.84” from Monday’s storms. CoCoRaHS observers reported 0.95” in Texline and 0.79” along South Sedan Road. Texaspivot.com shows farmland just north of Dalhart along Hwy 385 got up to 3” of rain. Pivots near Texline recorded about 1.25”. The Hartley area generally saw about 0.50” from the storms. 

As of the writing of this article (Tuesday afternoon) Dalhart was forecast for more heavy rain. 

Before the rainy weather, it was hot! We hit a high of 105 degrees on July 25 and 104 on July 26. However, that makes only four days this year we have been 100 degrees or hotter.  We dropped down to a high of 77 degrees on July 28 after the storms rolled in. 

High and low temps the past week

July 22: 94, 66

July 23: 96, 65

July 24: 99, 63

July 25: 105, 71

July 26: 104, 68

July 27: 91, 68

July 28: 77, 58