My yard’s completely brown,” said Suzette Kuban, a McClatchy regional human resources employee who lives in far north Fort Worth.
But the biggest factor is rainfall amounts compared to normal.
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“It will lower temperatures to normal or even below normal, and we’ll have some showers and thunderstorms,” he said.
But don’t expect the rain to lift the area out of drought conditions, said Jason Godwin, also a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Forecasters are expecting about a half-inch of rain over the next week and less than two inches of rain in August, Godwin said.
After the below normal temperatures and the rain, expect more normal August temperatures in the mid-90s, Godwin said.
However, the drought conditions may persist into next year, he added.
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