Disturbance moves inland, heavy rain chances winding down

Just a quick post on this Saturday morning to say that we’re still expecting a wet, but not particularly disruptive weekend for the Houston metro area.

As expected, the Gulf of Mexico tropical disturbance has moved inland into the central Texas coast overnight without developing. The strong easterly winds—Galveston briefly saw wind gusts of about 30 mph around midnight—resulting from this system should subside today and tides will slowly come down over the next couple of days.

Otherwise the story of the day will continue to be on-and-off rain showers with the potential for isolated heavy rain showers. I expect most of Houston will see between 0.5 to 1.5 inches of rain today and tonight, with rain chances beginning to slacken by around sunset give or take a few hours.

The potential for heavy rainfall ends after today, but we’ll continue to see a decent chance of showers on Sunday and into early next week. Chances most days will be in the 30 to 40 percent range, with modest accumulations. Beginning on Monday or Tuesday, days should steadily become more sunny, and temperatures will rise from highs of about 80 degrees to the upper 80s by week’s end.