Living in Houston is such a weird trip. We’ll go through an event like Hurricane Harvey and never, ever want to see another rain drop again. Then we’ll go through something like last summer, with its heat and drought, and the first decent rain of the fall will feel so damn cathartic. I don’t know about you, but after this week my pendulum has swung back toward not wanting to see it rain for awhile. I could do with some sunshine.
The good news is that the Sun will rise again. The bad news is that we have to get through tonight. Here’s a quick look at the forecast for the rest of today and tonight.
Wednesday night and Thursday
There have been plenty of rain showers across the metro area today, but accumulations have been manageable with most areas picking up 1 to 2 inches. We should see a few more hours of on-and-off showers before they become more scattered in nature this evening. This lull will be short lived however, as a weak front pushes through during the overnight hours.
What can you expect? Sometime between about midnight and 4 am, a broad line of showers and thunderstorms should push from west to east across the Houston region. There will be plenty of sound and fury, but the good news is that these storms should keep moving. I expect they will have cleared the area by around 4 to 6 am, so I don’t anticipate them posing a problem with getting out and about on Thursday morning. (Getting solid sleep on Wednesday night might be a problem, however, for those light sleepers among us.) In terms of accumulations overnight, I expect we’ll see some heavy rainfall, but due to storm motions I’d only anticipate accumulations of 0.5 to 1.5 inches.
We should see partly sunny skies on Thursday, with highs of around 70 degrees and some drier air—so pretty darn nice out. The region will see another chance of showers (likely with minimal accumulations) later on Friday ahead of a stronger front. This will usher in several days of sunny skies and much drier air. So by Saturday morning we’ll be done with the rain for awhile.
Thank you for the updates! Please have your app developer check on it. My (apple) SCW app hasn’t updated the forecasts since 1/23 afternoon.
Same here re: missing app updates on iOS. I’m getting new post notifications, but when I tap on them to open the app, the new post isn’t there. FWIW, I have an old iPhone that’s still running iOS 15.
We’re aware of the issues. A fix is in the works.
My little Shipoo hates thunder and both her and my Jack Russell dislike walking in the rain, but then neither like being out in the excessive heat we had last year, I just can’t satisfy them, they are both spoilt, fussy little buggers.
Anyway, I like walking in the rain and my garden likes rain too, so the dogs noses will just have to put up with being out of joint.
Thanks to SCW and for this sound-off forum also. 🙂
I’m loving the rain. I’ll take the tradeoff of rain and warmer temperatures than the garbage we had last week!
Why do most of the loud storms seem to be during nighttime hours?
Gotta take that up with mother nature
Lake Conroe is over 2 1/2 feet of full pool. 203.64 vs 201.
The clouds give me rain and I put my boots on and go looking for lichen (it’s flourishing right now out here in Bellville).
Thanks for the update! App on Android is not updating as well. Last post was yesterday 01/23
NO!
Never complain when we get rain. There is too much complaining when we don’t get it.
I know you’re right about this…but living through Harvey seriously made me doubt it.
I’m definitely tired of having to dry my wood floors every time I come in and out of my house, and I’m tired of being soggy and damp all the time. I don’t like 110F either, but this week’s weather can stop now, thanks.
Thunderstorms I can sleep through, my neighbors car alarm, not so much. No one wants to steal your POS 2006 truck.
After the 2011 drought, I thought I would never complain about rain. Then came Harvey. Oh well. Then this past summer and high water bills. Now, will we have a dry spring & summer to compensate for this rain like 2023?
One thing is for certain; it’s impossible to please all of the people all of the time. Enough said.
This was an excellent post! I loved the honest beginning with no filter 😂🤣
Thanks for the timely update.
Someone needs to talk with the manager of the scheduling department! His people are asleep at the switch. No rain all summer, now more than we need. What sort of quality control is that? Time to fire some people over there.
I like the rain. I had enough sun this summer to last me a long time.
I agree I’m never tired of the rain especially after the mostly dry 2 years we just had.
How did this affect drought conditions?