Houston’s weather will remain unsettled for a couple of more days, with the potential for briefly heavy rainfall, before a stronger cold front arrives on Saturday and brings significantly drier air with it. This will bring one of the last extended periods of spring-like weather to us this season, so enjoy!
Thursday
Although a weak front has limped through Houston and off the coast—winds are generally out of the north to northeast across the region—the atmosphere remains unstable. Therefore we’ll likely continue to see at least a handful of storms moving from west to east across the region today. These will bring showers and possibly a few strong thunderstorms to some areas, while others of us see mostly clouds. Highs today will be in the mid-70s, and lows tonight should drop into the 60s for most, with low 70s right along the coast.
Friday
Winds will shift to come from the south as the onshore flow resumes. This, combined with an approaching front, will set the stage for pretty healthy rain chances on Friday afternoon and Friday night. The greatest accumulations are likely north of Interstate 10, where much of the region should see 0.5 to 1.0 inch of rain, with isolated areas seeing more. Totals south of I-10 will likely see 0.5 inch of rain or less, on average. The front itself should move into Houston late Friday night or early Saturday morning, reaching the coast by sunrise. As a result, overnight lows will range from the 50s, well inland, to around 70 right on the coast.
Saturday
In the wake of the front, I think we’ll see rain showers ending by around sunrise, give or take an hour. Winds will kick up, gusting up to 25 or 30 mph out of the north before dying back during the evening hours. With mostly cloudy skies, I expect highs to max out in the upper 60s for most areas, with lows Saturday night dropping into the low-50s in Houston, with cooler conditions inland, and slightly warmer ones along the coast.
Sunday
A pleasant, springtime day with highs in the upper 60s and at least partly sunny skies. Sunday night’s lows will be similar to Saturday night, or possibly a couple of degrees cooler.
Next week
We can probably expect the first half of next week to remain dry, with highs in the 70s, and cool nights. After that time the onshore flow will resume, launching a warming trend before there’s the potential for another front to push into Houston late next week.
I will not be sad to see the weather of the next two days go away. But, I’m sure it will be back.
The Good: we needed the rain
The Bad: I’ve called like 5 different lawn services to set up mowing, and none have called me back! Now the grass is overgrown AND wet!
The Ugly: the Mosquitos are back in force
We’ve only had about 0.20″ of rain over the past couple of days at my house. This is not doing much to get rid of the drought. Soon I will be watering my lawn. Farmers ’round here must be unhappy.
0.07″– not breaking the drought AT ALL.
We got about 0.40″ in Webster
Watered the lawn for a half hour this weekend and didn’t have runoff. It is DRY
So everyone wants rain because they are too lazy and cheap to water their own yards.
For people like me who have to work then exercise outside we see things a little differently
But for the couch potatoes it makes perfect sense
Rain or shine they can sit on a couch,
Play video games and get fatter and more out of shape
Sir, this is a Wendy’s…