Happy Friday. It’s been a pretty nice week overall in Houston, and we have another couple nice days coming up. As Eric and I have been discussing, this nice weather has continued to march Texas into drought. November’s 0.50″ of rain in Houston ranks it as the fourth driest November on record for our city. And 90% of that rain fell on November 1st. Things have really just shut down post-Harvey, and we continue to see drought expanding, now evidenced around Houston on the weekly drought monitor report issued Thursday.
Updated Drought Monitor showing moderate drought increasing in coverage across Central Texas and the middle Texas coast. 35 percent of the state is now shown to be in some level of drought. Rainfall over the
past 60 days has generally been below 50 percent of normal. pic.twitter.com/VPF533tGBR— Bob Rose (@BobRoseTX) November 30, 2017
So, yes, while it’s tough to really say it, we actually really do need rain now. And we should get at least a little of it Sunday.
Today & Saturday
Both days look stellar to kick off the weekend. Expect sunshine both today and tomorrow with daytime highs in the low to mid-70s on average, with nighttime lows in the mid-50s tonight and upper-50s to around 60° on Saturday night. I wouldn’t rule out some patchy fog Saturday morning, especially south and east of Houston.
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