A lengthy stretch of calm weather to close September for Houston

In brief: A lengthy stretch of quiet weather will settle into Houston. No rain is expected over the next week, and temperatures look warm for this time of year, albeit with tolerable humidity. Our next front is TBD. The tropics remain a non-concern for Texas.

We are heading into a lengthy stretch of pretty quiet weather in the Houston area. Just to give you an idea of how quiet, here’s the 7-day rainfall forecast from the NWS for our area:

Dry as a bone. (Pivotal Weather)

So, expect a lot of sunshine the next several days!

With that will come drier conditions and certainly more autumn-like humidity levels. This will keep things hot but relatively comfortable. However, each afternoon, relative humidity levels should dip below 40 or even 30 percent.

On several upcoming afternoons (Saturday shown here), relative humidity levels will drop below 40 or even 30 percent. (Pivotal Weather)

With light winds forecast for the foreseeable future and some ample rain in many spots of late, fire danger isn’t exactly high, but if you are going to be working with open flames, particularly in more rural parts of the region, you’ll want to exercise some caution given the drier air mass in place here.

We will probably see humidity levels rebound a little next week. Temperature levels will too. We’ll go from upper-80s to around 90 degrees the next few days into the firmer low-90s later next week. Nighttime lows will only increase slowly, back to perhaps near or above 70 by later next week.

We could see temps spike to the mid-90s for a couple days later next week. Our next front is TBD, but there are hints of perhaps another weak one next weekend.

Tropics

We continue to see the Gulf shut out of tropics risks, good news for sure. But folks on the East Coast will need to monitor the 90% development area. Potential tropical cyclone advisories could be issued on this as early as later today. The track forecast is coming into focus now, with a path toward the Carolinas likely.

Humberto will remain out at sea, while the disturbance moving into the Bahamas may keep moving into the Carolinas. (NOAA NHC)

There are still a number of questions on 94L moving into the Bahamas. But it looks like it will be a hefty rainmaker for parts of the Carolinas, hopefully east of the footprint of Helene last year. You can follow our coverage of this system at The Eyewall.