In brief: Showers and thunderstorms are likely across the greater Houston region today, starting near the coast and spreading inland, and Wednesday. We don’t expect them to be too disruptive. We should then dry out for a few days before another round of showers on Sunday or Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday
The Houston region will experience slightly cooler weather, along with widespread showers and thunderstorms, during the next two days as the region’s atmosphere becomes unsettled. Although these showers will be most prominent during the daytime hours, some rain will also be possible during the overnight hours.
If you’ve lived in Houston for any period of time, you know generally what to expect. These storms will be hit or miss, with some areas seeing gusty winds and briefly heavy rainfall (and possibly small hail) whereas two neighborhoods over may only see dark skies. Most of these showers should be quick to move through, so we don’t expect widespread flooding issues. On average, most locations should pick up about 0.5 inch of rain over the next two days, but rain totals will vary widely.
Depending on the timing of rainfall at your locations, high temperatures are likely to range between the mid-80s and lower-90s. Skies will be partly sunny with generally light winds (outside of thunderstorms) at 5 to 10 mph. Nights remain warm and muggy.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
A slug of drier air moves in to the region during the second half of the week, and while this won’t entirely end rain chances, it should knock them down to about 30 percent each day. Consequently these three days should have mostly sunny skies and high temperatures in the lower 90s. If you have outdoor plans bring an umbrella, but I think showers each day will be more miss than hit. Overnight lows are in the upper 70s.
Sunday and Monday
Our model guidance indicates that another healthy chance of showers and thunderstorms will push into the area on Sunday and stick around through Monday. Overall accumulations may be on the order of another 0.5 inch for most locations, but I can’t really stress enough that totals will be inconsistent across the Houston region. On average I expect a bit higher rainfall amounts closer to the coast. Highs should be in the vicinity of 90 degrees.
Next week
At some point next week I expect high pressure to more firmly establish itself. As a result we can expect rain chances to decrease significantly. I would also anticipate highs in the mid-90s next week by Tuesday or Wednesday, with a risk of upper-90s before the weekend. Hello, July!
A message from Eric, on behalf of Reliant
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little guy is just testing for bugs!
This June has been pretty normal by Houston standards. In June of 1902 we hit 95 or higher nineteen times and ten of those went over 100. The odd thing was the average temperature was 1.3 degrees cooler than we are averaging this month. The difference? Nighttime lows were considerably cooler than what we have been currently experiencing. Concrete holds heat…
And size of the city. When I lived in League City in the 80s, we were pretty much at the edge of Houston metro. It cooled of at night. Now Houston goes pretty much goes all the way to Galveston, and in Clear Lake it’s 81 in the morning.
That lizard literally made my day! 🤣 🦎
Re: your picture. These anoles are delightful, but we don’t see any of the green ones anymore.
The Cuban Anoles are much more aggressive and frankly invasive. I still see the Green Anoles very rarely nowadays but I’m sad that a lot of kids these days won’t get the fond memory of being able to catch the Green Anoles and hang them from their earlobes – the Cuban Anoles are so skiddish they’re nearly impossible to catch.
“..catch the Green Anoles and hang them from their earlobes”
Huh! You mean kill them to hang from earlobes?
The brown ones (Cubans) have chased the green anoles into the trees for protection. The Cubans are very aggressive, out-compete the green ones for food and even kill the green ones.
By the way, the problem with taking one’s clothes off – metaphorically – is that one becomes somewhat exposed, that being said, I don’t see a single pollinating plant in your neighborhood from the photo. Do the deed restrictions not allow them?
That is a lot of assumptions to draw from a video which may or may not even be Eric’s, especially on a recessed portion of a 2nd floor entry/balcony.
Awwww, he made my day too!!!
On the back-yard cam I get:
Two neighborhood cats. One likes to nap on the picnic table at oh-dark-thirty.
A scrawny possum. Almost the same time every night.
The occasional night heron. We have four in the subdivision.
During the day, a Cooper’s(?) hawk.
Not once the burglar it was meant to pick up.
Anoles? Here on our acreage, we have rabbits, cardinals, turtles … and owls, who love waking up us in the morning. We have a couple of tall pines where red-shouldered hawks call home. Also have numerous gopher tunnels 🙂
What’s also nice is in the early AM , numerous deer cross our property in a southeast path (sometimes spooking the horses). Then in the evening, they cross back in a northwest path (numerous images captured by our security cams).
We have a saved video of a deer walking right up outside the dining room to eat berries off shrubs outside the window.