Thursday morning started cloudy and stormy for some across North Texas. By the afternoon, sunshine peaked through the clouds and highs topped out in the upper 80s with winds from the south around 5 to 10 mph.

A stretch of intense and potentially dangerous weather is headed toward parts of Texas this weekend, with forecasters in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex warning of multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms beginning Saturday night and continuing through early next week.

It's been another especially active severe weather season across the Lone Star State, driven by persistent upper-level low pressure systems and abundant atmospheric moisture riding north from the Gulf of Mexico.