Good morning. The story of the summer time to this point stays one among warmth, and whereas we’re going to take a step again in temperatures for a couple of days, the reprieve could also be comparatively temporary. In case you’re questioning, Houston now has a mean temperature of 88.5 levels for the month of July, which might break the present file of 87.5 levels (set in 1980) by a full diploma. June, already, was town’s warmest month on file. I’d prefer to say this summer time sucks, however the reverse is definitely true in regard to the stress sample driving this warmth.
Persistent excessive stress over the southern United States has been the predominant meteorological reason for this summer time’s warmth. This has typically created circumstances for sinking air, which has led to clear skies and sunny days. This supplies splendid circumstances for daytime heating, and out of doors of 1 week in late June and early July, we simply haven’t had a lot of a break from this sample. Sadly, we anticipate the excessive stress sample to largely persist a minimum of for the following couple of weeks.
Wednesday
Blissful 713 day! It’s July 13, the day we have a good time Houston’s OG space code and our metropolis’s distinctive id. Hopefully, Mom Nature will get into the festivities and maintain highs just under 100 levels for a minimum of a part of town. Highs will vary from the low 90s alongside the coast to the low 100s for areas effectively inland, because the area experiences one more brutally sizzling day. Like on current afternoons, we should always see some scattered showers and thunderstorms pop up north of Houston, after which transfer steadily towards the southwest. Some areas west of downtown obtained fortunate yesterday, and I want you success at the moment. Watching the radar of late has been a mixture of hope and dread—hope for rainfall, and dread of the inevitable miss.
Thursday
This nonetheless appears just like the day with one of the best likelihood for extra clouds, widespread rain, and considerably cooler temperatures. It’s because the excessive stress system retreats a bit additional to the west, opening the door to rain probabilities of maybe 30 to 50 p.c, and holding highs within the mid-90s for a lot of the realm.
Friday
One other day with highs probably solely within the mid-90s, though rain probabilities look to be decrease than Thursday.
Saturday and Sunday
Alas, excessive stress will begin to construct again over the area by late this week, and each weekend days look extremely popular, within the higher 90s to 100 levels with largely sunny skies. Rain probabilities, once more, look to be fairly low, maybe 10 to twenty p.c.
Subsequent week
The outlook for subsequent week nonetheless appears a bit muddled. Usually I’d anticipate highs within the upper-90s, however I feel there’s an opportunity we’re a bit cooler than that, with some barely higher rain probabilities. Put one other method, it’s going to be sizzling, however I don’t suppose it’s going to be fairly as brutal because it has been as we’ve seen to this point this month.
