Dallas

Temps in the single digits with possible icing.

Sorry on mobile, just giving a heads up.

Electricity demand is forecast to exceed committed supply Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., according to preliminary data from the grid operator late Thursday morning. The gap between supply and demand will be “more tight than any other day” this summer, Vegas told commissioners.

The expected tight conditions come due to very high heat, very high demand and the low expected output of wind power in the late afternoon as solar resources ramp down with sunset, Vegas said.

Natural gas and coal plants, which can underperform or fail in high heat, are seeing “at or near normal forced outage levels,” Vegas said. Grid data showed approximately 6,800 megawatts of natural gas and coal outages as of 11:30 a.m. Going into the summer, ERCOT predicted that natural gas and coal plants would see “typical” outages of 5,034 megawatts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3161637

This is the local news for north Texas. They're talking about the unusually high overnight temperatures and how it affects plantlife.

Starting early this year.

We have noise ordinances, but let the folks working outside start early and get out of the heat.

Severe thunderstorms are expected during the afternoon and evening across northwest into north-central Texas, with very large hail as the main risk.