Textbook August weather ahead for Houston

As is often the case in August, in Houston, we’re going to remain more or less under the influence of high pressure for the next several days. Who knows, maybe for most of the rest of the month.

If there’s anything positive to be taken away from this it’s that this dome of high pressure isn’t so dominant as to eliminate all possibility of rain, nor push temperatures above 100 degrees, and afternoon heat levels to dangerous levels. We’ve been able to remain just cool enough that the National Weather Service hasn’t had to issue heat advisories for the Houston metro area. At least not yet.

But these are small comforts, and it’s still August. Therefore rain is going to be hard to come by during the next week, even though some moisture will return to the area on Friday. Here’s a look at the NOAA rainfall accumulation forecast for now through next Wednesday evening.

 

What you’ll notice about the forecast map above is that for most of Texas the only real rain chances are along the coast, and that’s probably the pattern we’re going to see, more or less, over the next week. Warm nights with lows only in the upper 70s, hot days with highs in the upper 90s, and sea breeze-driven showers during the warmest, afternoon hours, mostly along the coast.

This is pretty much textbook weather for August—a month to be survived on the way to more temperate fall weather in late September and beyond.

Posted Thursday at 6:30am CT by Eric