Eric Berger

As you may know last Friday, for the first time, Space City Weather sought sponsorship. I’m pleased to say we’ve had great interest. Already we have someone lined up for May, with several months likely to be booked after that as well. If you know someone who may be interested here is a link to more information.

Still, many of you have asked about contributing to the site through micro-donations. Matt and I discussed the possibility of this, but we think the best thing for people to do is make a donation to the flood victims from last Sunday and Monday’s tremendous rainfall. Two of the best ways to do that are:

Houston in general: Salvation Army Houston

Northwest area (hardest hit): Memorial Assistance Ministries

As we get closer to hurricane season we’re also planning to sell some Space City Weather t-shirts by which people can both support the site as well as help us spread the word. We’ll have more information on that in a month or so.

In the meantime, thanks for all the support, and we’ll continue to stay on top of things for you guys.

After some rather nasty storms on Sunday afternoon and early evening, which brought as much as 3 inches of rain to Friendswood and sparked some tornado warnings, we’ll see quieter weather—for a bit.

TODAY and TUESDAY

We’ll see partly sunny and warm days, with highs rising into the mid-80s today and Tuesday. Over the course of the next two days we’ll see an increasingly strong southerly wind, which will help amp moisture levels back up over the area. On Tuesday we’ll hear a lot about the potential for multiple tornadoes and heavy rain over northern Texas and Oklahoma as a storm system crosses the central United States. It could get pretty bad for Dallas and points north. Houston appears likely to be on the southern periphery of this system. And as it moves eastward it could begin to affect the Houston region.

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Unfortunately some of the showers moving over Houston today did develop into moderately heavy thunderstorms. Additionally, these storms moved over the western half of the metro region hard hit by rains six days ago, bringing as much as 1 inch of rain to some areas.

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Good morning. It’s pleasantly cool for this late April morning, with temperatures around 60 degrees for most of the Houston area. In contrast to our lovely, sunny Saturday however, clouds will return to the area today and that possibly could mean some rain.

Scattered, light rain is possible later this morning, with spotty heavier rain and thunderstorms potentially this afternoon. (We could also see nothing but gray skies.) Additionally, although the probability of this is low, I’m not ready to rule out some isolated, locally heavy rainfall. If that seems likely I will update later today.

After that Monday and Tuesday look fairly warm, low- to mid-80s, with partly sunny skies. Nothing to worry about then but the AC bills. However there are two things to look out for in the coming week.

TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY

Forecasters have been warning for several days about ideal conditions for severe weather, including tornadoes, for northern Texas and Oklahoma during the day Tuesday. This still seems likely and will very likely be a major weather story this week.

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