Good morning. The city of Houston’s temperature last dropped below 50 degrees on March 20 of this year, which is nearly seven months ago. Tonight, we’re going back as temperatures reach their nadir with this cool front, and much of the area drops into the upper 40s away from the coast. After this cold night we’re going to be on a warming trend through Friday, when highs should get back into the upper 80s. Rain chances are low to non-existent through the weekend.
Monday
With a persistent offshore flow, dry air continues to flow into Houston, and with clear skies tonight we should see ideal conditions for cooler temperatures. Look for highs today to top out at about 70 degrees, with northerly winds at about 10 mph, with gusts up to 20 mph. As winds slacken tonight, we should see lows in to mid- to upper-40s.
Tuesday
Look for more sunshine, with warmer conditions on Tuesday, as highs push into the mid-70s. The offshore winds we’ve experienced since Friday night will veer to come from the east and then the southeast, and this will start the process of warming us up. Lows on Tuesday night will drop into the low- to mid-50s.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
The warming trend will continue, with daytime highs increasing to about 80 degrees on Wednesday, and then the mid- and upper-80s by the end of the work week. By Thursday night lows will only be falling into the mid-60s. A weak front is likely to arrive on Friday morning, but this one won’t modify temperatures too much, mostly bringing drier air. Since drier air warms more efficiently, this should allow daytime temperatures on Friday to be fairly warm before overnight lows drop into the low 60s.
Saturday and Sunday
The weekend forecast is dependent on the strength and duration of the front. Since it looks to be fairly weak and short-lived, I’m going to go with highs in the mid-80s or upper-80s and lows in the low 60s for the weekend. Basically, the slightly drier air means warm days and modestly cool nights. But there remains a fair amount of wiggle room in those temperatures. Skies should be partly to mostly sunny.
Next week
At this point most of next week is likely to see partly to mostly cloudy skies, fairly warm days in the 80s, nights in the 70s, and plenty of humidity. Rain chances also return by around Monday. This pattern should more or less hold until the following weekend—probably.
Weather-wise, this weekend was wonderful and having tonight’s “coldest” in the last 7 months is just fine with me. The A/C unit is enjoying the break.
Every forecast I’ve looked at since this past Friday has the high in either the low or mid 90s for inland areas west of Houston this coming Friday and Saturday, then holding in the upper 80s through at least October 25th.
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets
I guess I was traumatized a little by this past summer. Kind of like the trauma many of of experienced after Ike or Harvey. Because every day we get further away from August the more relief I feel.
Hopefully by spring I will be recharged enough to deal with another Houston summer.
Until then I am enjoying every second of “springtime in reverse”…
Why is the home page on my app set on July 6? I can’t figure out how to make it current.
My app on iPhone comes up to May 8th for the current conditions…….. And it says sunrise and sunset are 12:00 am.
BUT the articles below that are the correct ones.
And on my Windows 10 computer, all is good.
The winds are punishing.
Any Verdict on the Houston half weekend?
Yeah, I’m wondering about that too. If you really squint, it appears there may be a front pushing through a couple of days before, but the magnitude of temp drops behind it is too hard to determine this far out. Again, squinting, it looks like low 60s, but we need several more days to get a reasonable idea truly.
Well, since we had just one decent rain last week and there’s no more on the way, I guess it’s back to continually watering like I’ve been doing for the last 4 months.
Well, since we had just one decent rain last week and there’s no more on the way, I guess it’s back to continually watering like I’ve been doing for the last 4 months.
Sorry for posting twice!
Sunday was actually chilly with the winds howling out of the north. The first real taste of fall, I think.