Eric Berger

Gradually warming this week, rain possible next weekend

What a gorgeous weekend. Our run of sunny, winter-like weather will continue today and Tuesday before warming up this week.

MONDAY-TUESDAY

High pressure will keep things cool and sunny, with highs around 70 degrees, and overnight lows on Tuesday morning in the upper 40s. Basically, the weekend weather continues for a couple of more days.

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY

After high pressure finally moves off to the east we’ll see a return flow from the Gulf of Mexico gradually build up. Skies will remain partly to mostly sunny, however, because there’s so little moisture to begin with over the Houston area.

Expect highs to rise from the mid-70s on Wednesday to the upper 70s to nearly 80 degrees on Friday. Overnight lows will rise from 50 degrees on Wednesday to nearly 70 degrees on Saturday morning.

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Cool days and cold nights: Our new normal

Temperatures are quite cool across the Houston area this morning, with lows around 40 degrees. Welcome to the new normal.

TODAY-TUESDAY

Houston will see more or less similar conditions for the next six days — highs in the 60s, lows in the low- to mid-40s, with lots of sunshine. Just when the onshore flow would resume this weekend it looks like another cool front will arrive to keep us in this pattern through the first part of next week. Rain chances are near nil.

Friday morning will be our coldest one of the week. (Weather Bell)
Friday morning will be our coldest one of the week. (Weather Bell)

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Here comes the Sun — for a long while

Finally, the Sun returns today. And it’s going to stay awhile. This is an easy forecast.

With high pressure moving into Texas from the west, our skies will clear today, and we’ll see a cool, mostly northerly flow through next Monday.

Skies will clear from west to east today, as high pressure moves in. (NOAA)
Skies will clear from west to east today, as high pressure moves in. (NOAA)

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Cooler air, clearer skies, coming to a Bayou City near you

Good morning. Today’s the day we begin to descend further into winter for the rest of the week, and we’re also going to see an end to the gray-clad skies that have been with us for a long time.

TODAY

A large upper-level low pressure system over the Midwestern United States is going to be the driver of Texas’ weather today. As this system moves eastward, it will usher in a colder air mass, drier air and — eventually — clearing skies.

Visible satellite image of the United States at about 5:30 a.m. CT. (NOAA)
Visible satellite image of the United States at about 5:30 a.m. CT. (NOAA)

 

Some additional light rain will be possible with this system as it moves through this morning, however even this modest precipitation should end by the afternoon hours. For clearing skies we will probably have to wait until tonight, or Wednesday morning.

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