It’s excruciatingly hot in North Texas, and a weather phenomenon called a “heat dome” is to blame.
A heat dome has hovered over a massive part of the country creating dangerous temperatures in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — and expanding as far as Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Florida in recent days.
“The reason why we’re having all this is heat is an area of high pressure directly over the central and southern United States,” Allison Prater, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, told The Dallas Morning News. “There’s been quite a bit of heat going out, and when we have that high pressure we have sinking air — so warming temperatures, not a lot of clouds and no rain chances.”
