Good morning. The storm system that has hit our area over the past two days is lastly transferring eastward. The final line of its showers is transferring pretty rapidly from west to east throughout the realm. Areas close to Interstate 45 are nonetheless being hammered this morning with rainfall, however the heaviest of those storms shall be passed by round 7:30 or 8 am, and the rains ought to be over fully by 10 or 11 am. Skies will filter out this afternoon. We’re ending the Stage 1 flood alert accordingly.
As anticipated, a lot of the realm has acquired 2 to 4 inches of rainfall since Thanksgiving morning, with a couple of remoted areas receiving as a lot as 7 inches of rainfall. I’ll publish extra about this on Monday, however these rains have undoubtedly put a pleasant dent within the drought that shaped this summer season and fall throughout elements of the Houston metro space. And so whereas they might have made for a soggy vacation, our bushes will be glad about these rains.
The excellent news is that whereas the final two days had been moist, the second half of the lengthy weekend shall be sunny and wonderful. Search for clearing skies this afternoon and highs within the higher 60s. Winds shall be noticeable, out of the west, at occasions gusting as much as 25 mph. Lows tonight will drop into the higher 40s in Houston, with colder circumstances inland. Winds will slacken some on Sunday, with extra sunny skies, and highs within the higher 60s to 70 levels. In brief, this ought to be a wonderful fall weekend as soon as rains clear this morning.
We’ll see a pointy warm-up by Tuesday, with highs climbing to about 80 levels, earlier than the following chilly frotn arrives to chill issues off for a couple of days. I hope everybody has a nice finish to the vacation weekend.
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