It’s been a day in Houston, with some very heavy rainfall across parts of the city. If you live in Kingwood, congratulations, so far you’re the big winner with about 6+ inches of rain. With lots of street flooding in the area, it’s a mess trying to get home this evening along I-59 north, as well as I-59 south toward Sugar Land.
Most of the high-resolution model forecasts indicate that the current widespread activity should die down this evening, by 6 to 9 pm, which should coincide with the loss of daytime heating. From that point on, we will hopefully see a reprieve from heavy rainfall during the overnight hours.
Wednesday is a bit of a crapshoot. There is a scenario, which I’d probably lean toward, that keeps most of the heavy rain away from Houston as a cold front remains north of the metro region—including away from Kingwood and surrounding areas hard hit on Tuesday. But frankly, given the intensity and widespread nature of the storms Tuesday I don’t have great confidence in the forecast for Wednesday. Hopefully the forecast is a bit more clear in the morning.
From now through Saturday it’s going to be a day-to-day thing.
Eric and Matt,
That you two would research and prepare daily and sometimes multiple times daily, weather updates pro bono is AMAZING and such a huge blessing for our huge city!! THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
I echo the applause for you two. Fantastic work. As for today, WTH happened in the atmosphere as everyone was pointing towards later in week for the big stuff. That “stuff” I went through coming hone to Sugar Land from downtown was tropical intensity!
Honestly, we’ve been terrible today. Didn’t anticipate the intensity of what we saw SW of Houston (where you are) nor NE in Kingwood.
Thanks, Eric – love your posts. Now everyone is asking me about the weather because I tell them your forecast and it usually happens. I DO direct them to Space City Weather also!
Hasn’t Tuesday become worse, at least in spots, than forecast?
Superb job, Eric & Matt!
I’m trying to fly into IAH tonight and so far I’m delayed. Thoughts on chances of flights getting in tonight?
You guys are the best!
KHOU-11 just announced IAH has resumed operations.
I live in Kingwood and my personal weather station recorded 10.39 inches of rain since 12:00 AM. I cannot compare this to last Friday’s storm because we were without electricity for over 6 hours and my weather station was offline. My street flooded Friday and today which hasn’t happened for many years.
Thanks to you both at Space City Weather for helping us get weather information.
This has been so much worse than I expected. It is still pouring at my house. I am very worried about the next few days. Worse, my husband is stuck at IAH.
Eric and Matt – You two do amazing work. Frankly, I don’t know why anyone would take on the task of forecasting weather anywhere on the globe, much less Houston, considering the state of our environment – i.e. climate change. To me, weather forecasting has always been a dodge – especially along the Texas Gulf Coast – but with climate change? It’s even more of a crap shoot. Please – keep up the good work – Space City Weather is a remarkable resource.