Good morning. Houston’s very hot, but not extremely hot, weather pattern will continue for the rest of this week, and well into next week. Truth be told, as we slide into August in a few days, this is the warmest time of the year in Houston. So we’re probably not going to see any significant relief, temperature-wise, for awhile. The best we can do is cloudier days with some rain-cooled air. There is a chance we may see a little bit more of that in a week or so.
Wednesday
This week we’ve seen a pattern of isolated-to-scattered showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon hours, most commonly south of Interstate 10, and this will continue today. Rain chances are about 30 percent for southern parts of Houston, and just 10 percent or so further inland. Otherwise we’re going to see highs in the mid- to upper-90s with mostly sunny skies. Winds will be light, from the south, and lows tonight will drop into the upper 70s.
Thursday
A day that will be a lot like Wednesday, except that rain chances will be just a bit lower.
Friday
Rain chances drop to about 10 percent area wide, as highs push into the upper 90s. Skies remain sunny.
Saturday and Sunday
High pressure will strengthen a bit over Texas this weekend, and this should lead to a pair of hot and sunny days with highs near or at 100 degrees. Rain chances both days will be on the order of 10 percent; which is to say very low.
Next week
The aforementioned high pressure system should start to retreat to the east next week, and this may open us up to the possibility of at least scattered showers, if not more widespread rainfall. To be clear, I’m not predicting any kind of washout. But we may get to the point where we’re seeing daily chances on the order of 40 percent by mid-week. Highs probably will remain in the mid- to upper-90s.
I very much enjoy your weather email, please keep up the good work.
As a suggestion, during hurricane season, could you please include a ‘Tropics’ section to comment about whether or not there are any low pressure waves coming from Africa? Or simply, “nothing out there” or “a couple of items we’re watching”. I believe that ya’ll are watching, but maybe your other readers are like me and would be interested to know that there is nothing of interest.
Again, thank you for the to-the-point-without-hype weather reporting! Great job!
Tom Wintfield, check out their companion site, The Eyewall. It was created for just this purpose.
That was in fact a regular feature until pretty recently. As Bridgitt says, it’s now been spun off into its own site. I’ll just give the full link, which is https://theeyewall.com/
The ridge moves away by a few inches seemingly. Sarcasm aside, this death ridge must break down, not just shuffle here and there. Until then, what you see is what you get, a furnace.
You all certainly touched a nerve with some Apple techie. The app has gone from offering rain chances that are too high to showing no rain chances at all. It only shows a cloud icon now and then. Maybe they will find a balance in the end. I still like it because it shows dew point temperatures, which have educated me about what I find tolerable in terms of temperature and humidity. For me, dew points above 74 degrees are just too much along with elevated temperatures.
I got hit in the head with a rain drop yesterday afternoon – does that count as “having rained”?
You sure it was a rain drop?!
It wasn’t white…..
it was an outright thunderstorm yesterday afternoon late where I am.