In brief: There’s a little something for everyone in today’s forecast. We’ve got clouds and some rain during the next couple of days before a nice stretch of sunny and low-humidity weather to take us through the weekend. Only thing to watch for is the low-end potential of some storms on Thursday afternoon.
Wednesday
It’s a fairly dreary morning outside, with light, misty rainfall and areas of fog. This drizzle and fog may persist for much of the morning before we’re simply left with a layer of clouds. With a warmer, southeasterly flow in place we can expect temperatures to warm to about 70 degrees this afternoon, with increasing humidity levels. A chance of drizzle remains overnight, as lows only drop into the lower 60s.
Thursday
This will be a fairly warm day, despite the cloudy skies, as high temperatures rise into the mid-70s with humidity to match. Some scattered showers will be possible during the morning hours, along with gusty southeasterly winds. During the afternoon, a cold front will approach the area, likely reaching Katy and Tomball an hour or two after noon. What I think we’re likely to see is a broken line of showers that may possibly fill in as it moves through Houston during the afternoon. There is a slight chance of some severe weather with the front, and this is most likely to occur as it passes to the east of the Interstate 45 corridor. This includes the potential for severe thunderstorms or damaging winds. (There is a very low-end chance of hail or a tornado). For most of us, the front should be a fairly modest event, with drier air moving in behind. Lows will drop into the low 50s on Thursday night with clearing skies.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Sunshine is back on the menu, along with a nice slug of drier air and sunshine. Winds from the north will be a bit gusty on Friday morning, but should back down after that. We’re looking at highs on Friday and Saturday of around 70 degrees, with temperatures at night falling into the mid- to upper-40s. Sunday will be a little warmer, with highs in the lower- to mid-70s, but still with plenty of dry air. I can’t wait to take a long bike ride and soak up some sun.
Next week
The atmosphere turns a bit messier next week, but generally I expect we’ll see warm, partly sunny days with highs in the 70s, and nights with lows around 60 degrees. There may be some slight, daily rain chances. Some kind of front works its way toward Houston by the weekend, but an Arctic blast it will not be.
Looking forward to warmer sunny weather!
mid to high 70s are back on the menu bois
Eric B…….Thanks for the accuracy, brevity and clarity of your WX forecasts. I use your predictions for planning my bike rides, lawn work, travel etc. Looking forward to the spring and summer. SCW….Keep Eric B. around.
Your really looking forward to 4 months in a row of upper 90s with heat index values of 110+ everyday? Yuck not me
Careful. If you dare say you don’t like the weather they’ll call you a transplant and act as if complaining about the weather is an insult to their mother.
Facts 💯 🤣
Laughing
Back to the murky swamp for the next 11 months 🤮
I guess I will just have to move up north if I ever want to see 3 months of consistently cool weather again. These almost one month winters we get now are for the birds.
Three months? I live in the southern Rockies and we have freezes from late September through mid May, pick your poison.
When we lived in Denver we could always count on a massive snow fall in September and icy conditions lasted well into the new year. Cold fingers and shoveling snow gets old really fast.
Lovely state is Colorado though.
I would much rather have that than the 10 months of suffocating heat and humidity we get down here.
I agree this is not how winters used to be down here. I mean we’ve always had harsh cold snaps and brief warm ups during the winter months but in recent years it’s warm through the majority of the winter except we get one strong cold blast that kills all the plants and busts peoples pipes, and then bam its spring. There isn’t really any moderation between the extremes anymore. We constantly swing from one extreme to the other now.
Yeah, it’s all wx hangover now and you never even got to taste the champagne bubbles
I officially declare that tomorrow will be tornado-less for our area.
There – I just fixed it 😄
Love the Forecast. Temps in the 70s lows in the 60s. Perfect. Folks pay millions to live in those temps plus risk their lives to live in fire prone areas. Soak it up y’all!!! (yes, its a word! if it communicates then its a word)
“…I can’t wait to take a long bike ride and soak up some sun.”
Me too. I’ll drive to Sealy and then ride out to Fayetteville and back on Sunday. If I leave earlier enough I can get 100 miles in before joining the I10 crowd for the drive back.
It’s been interesting (if not a massive bummer) to watch the rainfall models consistently start with “5+ inches of rain and flood threat” to “possibly a quarter to a half of an inch” in less than a week all the time.
Is the arctic blast still in the long-range forecast?
I read that the Gulf snowstorm we had was the catalyst for storm named Eowyn that hit Ireland with the strongest winds ever recorded there, with mb down to 939. I guess that is like a cold hurricane? Still trying to wrap my mind around it.