There isn’t any approach to spin Saturday’s awful climate in Houston, which was only a dreary day. However the second half of the weekend made up for it with some spectacularly sunny climate. Should you caught sundown on Sunday night time and didn’t go inside immediately, then you definitely have been in a position to get pleasure from an extra celestial deal with. The setting Solar was adopted by a beautiful, very skinny crescent Moon on Sunday night. A little bit increased within the sky, there was the intense gentle of Venus. Simply to the correct of Venus there was a significantly fainter “star.” This was, in actuality, Saturn.
Waiting for this week, our quick concern is the potential for extreme climate on Tuesday, notably close to the coast, with the passage of the subsequent chilly entrance. After that we’ll see sunny skies and sharply colder nights by way of the remainder of the work week, with a warm-up by the weekend.
Monday
At this time must be fairly good, with principally sunny skies and excessive temperatures close to 60 levels. Winds will likely be gentle, out of the northeast, at 5 to 10 mph. Nevertheless, later right this moment and tonight, winds will begin to shift to come back from the east, and switch extra gusty. This elevated atmospheric moisture will assist the event of clouds tonight, and may maintain in a single day lows at about 50 levels.
Tuesday
An upper-level disturbance will method our area on Tuesday and actually fire up the environment. As this low stress system nears to Houston area it might be intensifying, resulting in a line of robust showers and thunderstorms because it sweeps by way of the area in the course of the afternoon hours.
Beginning out in the course of the morning hours, we’ll see scattered showers and thunderstorms. Winds will shift from the east, to south, to lastly come from the west because the entrance approaches after which passes by way of the Houston space. I believe the road of storms will in all probability attain areas akin to Katy between about 1 to three pm, the downtown space about 2 to 4 pm, and push off the coast by 4 to six pm. These storms are going to convey three issues: Robust winds, particularly close to the coast, the place gusts will attain 40 to even 50 mph; briefly intense, heavy rainfall; and the potential for some remoted hail and maybe a twister or two. Because the low stress system will doubtless be intensifying because it strikes into Houston, the strongest and most extreme climate seems prone to develop south of Interstate 10, in areas akin to Brazoria and Galveston counties.
We’re carefully monitoring the potential for avenue flooding, as these storms will doubtless produce widespread accumulations of 1 to three inches of rainfall, with increased remoted totals. We aren’t fairly able to challenge a Stage 1 flood alert, but it surely’s one thing we might do later this afternoon as we see extra information. The underside line is that circumstances in Houston on Tuesday afternoon might briefly flip pretty nasty. Winds develop into northerly on Tuesday after the entrance’s passage, dropping lows to round 40 levels in Houston.
Wednesday and Thursday
These will likely be chilly winter days (for Houston). Search for principally sunny skies, breezy northerly winds, and highs within the mid-50s. Each nights will drop into the higher 30s in Houston, with colder circumstances additional inland. We can not fully rule out a freeze for some far inland areas.
Friday
Highs ought to climb to round 60 levels on Friday, so a bit hotter, with principally sunny skies. Lows Friday night time will solely drop into the mid- to upper-40s as a extra southerly circulation returns.
Saturday and Sunday
The forecast for the weekend is somewhat bit blurry, however I do assume we’ll see a wholesome likelihood of showers, though it’s troublesome to pinpoint when, or how a lot rain. Probabilities, for now, look finest south of Interstate 10. Temperature clever, I believe we’ll be again to highs of round 70 levels, with lows simply within the 60s. Hopefully we’ll get some extra readability on the weekend forecast in a day or two.
Subsequent week
The broad pattern helps a cooler sample once more for subsequent week, however the particulars are understandably missing. There’s maybe a 1-in-4 likelihood of seeing some considerably colder climate later subsequent week, with lows close to freezing, however my guess is that we’ll in all probability see one thing milder than that. I solely point out this as a result of some readers have been asking whether or not winter is over but. My quick reply is: “I don’t assume so.”
