Good morning. The fog is back across Houston, but it should begin to dissipate later this morning. Houston will then be warm and humid for another day and a half, before a front with some sticking power ushers in several days of very pleasant, spring-like weather that should last into the weekend.
Tuesday
After the fog clears this morning skies will remain cloudy, and we may see some scattered to isolated showers throughout the day. Otherwise, it will just be fairly humid, with highs likely reaching the low 80s in most locations. Conditions overnight will remain cloudy, with low temperatures possibly not dropping below 70 degrees for much of the metro area.
Wednesday
After another warm morning, a front will approach the region. Rain chances will be fairly high during the morning hours, and I expect much of the region will likely see around 0.25 to 0.5 inches of rain before a drier air mass moves into the region. We may see some a few thunderstorms to the east of Interstate 45 where the atmosphere should be a little bit more unstable.
The drier air should reach Houston by around noon, give or take, and move offshore during the afternoon hours. Temperatures will drop as skies clear and the Sun goes down, with lows falling to around 50 degrees Wednesday night.
Thursday and Friday
Just a pair of lovely spring days, with sunny skies, highs near 70 degrees and lows in the upper 40s to around 50 degrees. Some brisk northerly winds may linger into Thursday morning out of the north, but those should begin to die down later in the day.
Saturday and Sunday
The sunshine party continues into the weekend, with mostly clear skies on Saturday, and at least partly clear skies on Sunday. Highs on Saturday will again be around 70 degrees, before getting into the mid-70s on Sunday as the overall flow turns more southerly.
Next week
Most of next week looks warmer, with highs in the 70s and 80s, and lows in the 60s. There may be another front passing through by mid-week but that is far from a certainty.
Please educate me. What is the difference between scattered showers and isolated showers?
I am going to use this analogy. Scattered showers is like getting a teaspoon of dozens of sprinkles and spreading the sprinkles across all or some of the top of a cake or in a single line. The line will look like polka dots and can move from one side of the cake to the other side.
An isolated shower is like picking up a pinch or two of sprinkles with the forefinger and thumb and maybe put one pinch on the middle of the top of the cake and another pinch near the edge of a cake. The two areas are solid spots and they can move from on area to another area as a solid spot. I hope this analogy helps.
Isolated showers could be like one shower in the Sugar Land area and one shower in the Kingwood area. On a map of the Houston metropolitan area, they will look like two solid dots. There is a slight chance of rain near each town.
Scattered showers could be a line of showered about five miles thick from Sugar Land to Kingwood along the I-69/ SH 59 freeway. The line of showers will look like spots. There is a possibility of rain, if you live along the freeway.
According to the NWS glossary, a forecast of scattered showers means that precipitation can be expected in 30-50 percent of the area in a forecast. And isolated showers refers to about a 10 percent chance of the precipitation occurring. According to the NWS definition, “isolated” is used interchangeably with “few”. So how I would take it is that an isolated chance of showers is the same as saying that we can expect a few showers to be popping up around the forecast area. Scattered to isolated would be a range of expected possibilities somewhere along the line from one up to the other. I’m going to plan my day so that I can reasonably expect not to get rained on, but if a few raindrops happen to fall on my head while I’m out I’m not going to charge back here to the comments section saying “you said it wouldn’t rain!”
Yes, most people consider a high of 70 to be splendid, but not me. While they are nice days, I prefer significantly warmer temps, like 85, even 90.
I don’t want to have change clothes or put on jackets at some point if I’m in the shade or it gets breezy. I don’t like being stuck somewhere and being chilly.
Im the same way. 70/50 isn’t warm enough for me cuz the houses here get so cold at night due to their lack of insulation. I love the 80s and sometimes even low 90s during the day and 70 at night. What I really love tho is the humidity. My fav is when the dewpoints are in the high 60s and low 70s. Today’s weather is perfect but I won’t be as happy once the cold front comes through tomorrow.