Houston’s weather today will be superlative as we transition to warmer days

Summary: Tuesday and Wednesday will bring some amazing weather to Houston before we cloud up and then see some showers on Friday. This weekend looks colder, with plenty of sunshine toward the second half. Next week should be mild.

We’re in that time of year when Houston’s weather swings from cold conditions to warmer and somewhat humid days, and then back again. It’s the in-between periods that I love most, those one or two days when we’re transitioning from the cold to the warm, when the sun is shining and the humidity not yet rebounded, that provides gorgeous weather. For this week today, and to a lesser extent Wednesday, are those days. If anyone can suggest a name for this terrific transition weather, I’d love to hear it.

High temperature forecast for today. (Weather Bell)

Tuesday

With high pressure holding sway, skies will be sunny today. After our chilly start (in the low 40s for most) we’ll warm nicely into the mid-60s. Today has it all: sunshine, very light winds, and low humidity. We’ll start to see a light southeasterly wind tonight that will herald the beginnings of an onshore flow, but temperatures should again drop into the low- to mid-40s.

Wednesday

Valentine’s Day will be pretty nice as well for you and your sweetheart, with partly sunny skies for much of the day and highs in the upper 60s. Winds will still be pretty light, but perhaps blow at 10 mph from the south. We’ll start to see more cloud cover later in the afternoon or evening hours. Lows will drop into the 50s.

Thursday

This will be a warmer and mostly cloudy day, with light southerly winds and highs generally in the mid-70s. With dewpoints near 60 degrees, the air will feel a bit more muggy than it’s been. Lows will only drop to around 60 degrees on Thursday night.

Friday

This day is likely to produce widespread showers, especially the closer one lives to the coast. First of all, that southerly flow is going to help pump up atmospheric moisture levels. The we’ve got a coastal low pressure system that is going to be a rainmaker. For now, however, it looks as though the majority of that precipitation is going to fall offshore.

NOAA rain accumulation forecast for now through Saturday morning. (Weather Bell)

Still, most of Houston south of Interstate 10 is likely to see 0.5 to 1 inch of rain between late Thursday night and Saturday morning. The most likely time for showers is Friday afternoon. Further inland you can probably expect 0.5 inch or less, with some spots possibly not seeing any rain at all. I don’t think we’ll see much in the way of severe weather at this point. Highs will be in the mid- to upper-60s.

Saturday

A front will blow in on Friday night, and this should bring an end to shower activity by Saturday morning. The day with start out mostly cloudy, but we may see some clearing of skies during the afternoon hours. Highs will likely top out in the upper 50s with some fairly gusty northerly winds during the daytime. With clearing skies overnight, temperatures may fall into the upper-30s in Houston, but I think a freeze will remain just north of the metro area.

Low temperature forecast for Saturday night. (Weather Bell)

Sunday

This will be a sunny, fine day with highs in the upper 50s to 60 degrees, with light winds. Lows on Sunday night will be a few degrees warmer than Saturday night.

Next week

At this point most of next week looks warmer, with highs in the 70s and lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Humidity levels will be up, but not oppressively so. Overall rain chances look low for much of the week.

29 thoughts on “Houston’s weather today will be superlative as we transition to warmer days”

  7. For names, I know this might not go over well, but how about something like Texifornia weather? Or Calitexas? Or just Calitex?

    I lived in northern California for a few years in the 90s, and these handful of days here in Houston remind me of that weather. Just beautiful.

  13. “Good Hair days.” Also for me, “Hope you have the day off from your retail job” days. 😉

    It’s gorgeous. These are my absolute favorites.

  14. Yesterday afternoon was also gorgeous. I always think of these as Ferris Bueller Days. — “How can I possibly be expected to handle school [work] on a day like this?”

    There’s a meme going around that we have 14 seasons and in it, this is called “False Spring.”

  15. The in between days can indeed be great, they are like real spring in much of the country, but late winter here. Transition days are not my favorite term, because, I consider a lot of the winter here to be transition days–those days when you start out wearing a jacket but spend all afternoon wondering why you brought a jacket, or, the opposite, when you start out and it’s 72 degrees but by the end of the day it is 42 and windy and you wish you would have brought an extra layer. I kind of get the feeling that we aren’t going to have any more truly cold days this season, although it’s too early to count on that, and of course there will be some more cool days and chilly nights, but nothing like the freeze we had in January.

  16. “If anyone can suggest a name for this terrific transition weather, I’d love to hear it.”

    -I’ve always called this “Sprall.”

  20. One of my uncles, who resided in Houston most of his life, would wryly refer to those few perfect days as “Typical Houston weather.”

  21. Three dog nights in winter
    Opposed by the dog days of summer
    Valentine’s in between, the puppy dogs frolic

  24. Re “If anyone can suggest a name for this terrific transition weather, I’d love to hear it.”

    Occupational visualosis. That’s when it’s so nice outside you can’t see going to work.

  25. I think of them as “The Full Shebang”. There is something for everyone at some point during this day (and, sometimes more than one moment).

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