00:00Summer will just not let go across the south-central U.S.
00:04Dallas has already reached 100 degrees on 52 days this year, tied for the fifth most in a calendar year.
00:10After a reasonable start to the summer with no triple-digit heat before July 4th, the heat became relentless.
00:16During August and September, Dallas endured three separate triple-digit streaks, lasting at least 10 days.
00:23The city normally averages about 20 days at or above 100 degrees.
00:27Last year, it only had seven.
00:28The turnaround is even more dramatic elsewhere.
00:31Oklahoma City went from just one triple-digit day last year to 45 this year.
00:36The annual average is 13.
00:38Wichita also only had one last year, and this year it recorded 29, more than double its average of 12.
00:45The heat will hold across the south into next week with more record-challenging highs Monday.
00:49The final week of September should become more bearable.
00:52Fall may be slow to reach Texas, but our long-range forecast team says the extreme heat should give way
00:57to more comfortable weather
00:58weather in October, especially away from the Gulf Coast.
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