3/1 Texas Weather 6 PM: 57° Above Normal

The Texas Weather Podcast by The Weather Podcast, Inc.

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Good evening. Texas. I'm Aaron Jolly. Eighty four degrees. In early March. Let that sink in while you're sitting on the porch tonight. A massive high pressure ridge has planted itself over Texas like it owns the place. It's pulling warm Gulf air straight up through the state, pushing temperatures a full 57 degrees above normal. and honestly? It feels more like late May than the first day of March. In the next 24 hours. Down in South Texas, you caught the worst of the heat today. Highs hit 88 degrees with southeast winds gusting to 28 miles an hour. That combo of warmth, wind. and bone dry brush has fire weather conditions cranked up across the Rio Grande Plains. If you're anywhere near open land tonight, be careful with anything that sparks. Slide north into Central Texas and you topped out around 84 degrees under blue skies. Clouds creep in over ... 
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