Another week of excessive heat awaits Houston

If you missed it on Sunday, we put together a summary of what has been a pretty wild June in terms of severe weather in the Houston area. Not everyone has participated, but many have. We discussed why and what has made forecasting these storms so challenging. This week? None of that. At least not through Friday we don’t think. It just looks torrid.

Once again, it will be important for all of us to practice maximum heat safety this week. Whatever index you use, it will feel terribly hot all week, with heat index values of 110 to 115 degrees and wet bulb globe temperatures in the “extreme” level for the human body. While the forecast temperatures will not be overly impressive, the combo of temperature and humidity remains abnormally potent for our area, the next level of heat.

Today through Thursday

High temperatures will scorch the next few days, generally in the 100 to 102 range. Overnight lows will be near 80. Humidity levels will be awful. Rain chances look to be near zero through Thursday. Yada yada yada.

Friday and Saturday

More of the same. I just wanted to break up the post a little.

Sunday and early next week: Relief?

So to the question you’re all wondering: When does this end? It appears more likely that by Sunday or Monday, the potent, relentless ridge over Texas and/or Mexico will finally break down. You can follow this on an upper level forecast map. Notice how you can clearly see the “dome” of high pressure over Texas. That finally begins to collapse on Sunday and Monday of the weekend/next week, and that should hopefully yield cooler temperatures and rain chances. Unless you have Fourth of July plans, in which case, of course.

But, we really need a period of cooler weather and hopefully some rain chances. We certainly hope the holiday is rain-free, but we’ll see.

Tropics

Nothing new or exciting to discuss. We’ve seen some noise on the operational modeling way out in fantasyland, much like we did earlier this month. But there is no real support for anything. Check our companion site, The Eyewall for a full tropical update for the Atlantic if you’re interested in more! And just a reminder, if a storm were to be a concern for Houston, we would still include all the relevant info here at Space City Weather. We’d love for you to read The Eyewall regularly, but you won’t be missing Houston-relevant info!