Heavy rain fell across North Texas overnight Wednesday and will continue through midday Thursday with clearing skies in the afternoon. North Texans are waking up Thursday to widespread heavy rain and thunderstorms.

A flood watch has been issued for much of the Heartland today and tonight as heavy rain looks likely. Rainfall will be moderately steady. Embedded thundershowers are possible this afternoon and evening,

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch effective from 4 p.m. Sunday to 4 p.m. Monday for areas in or near burn scars created by the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hughes Fire and Bridge Fire, the latter blaze of which burned 56,000 acres last fall.