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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 …
Read MoreGood morning, Houston. The radar is quiet as the sun begins to rise, but it’s not expected to remain so. We still anticipate a pair of rainy, but not menacing days, before we finally move beyond the persistent threat of rain on Sunday. The Atlantic tropics are also starting to …
Read MoreThroughout today the European forecast model has been advertising the potential for a tropical disturbance to develop in the Gulf of Mexico, and then move toward the Texas coast this weekend. This evening, in its 7pm CT update, the National Hurricane Center gave this system a 20 percent chance of …
Read MoreGood morning. The Houston region should see a quiet day today, with scattered showers, before more widespread rain chances return on Friday and Saturday. Overall accumulations, however, should generally remain in the 1 to 4 inch total through Saturday. We therefore are dropping the use of our flood scale as …
Read MoreGood afternoon. The atmosphere has behaved itself so far today, with most of the area seeing one-half inch of rainfall, or less, since sunrise. We expect this trend to continue today and tonight. Yes, rain will be possible. No, it should not be extreme. Overall, we think the threat of …
Read MoreA ferocious line of storms roared through Houston on Tuesday night, producing a biblical amount of lightning, threatening with tornadoes, throwing down some hail, and dropping buckets of rain. But there was a silver lining—a silver lining that if I’m being honest I did not fully anticipate—with these storms. Rather …
Read MoreOk everyone, take a deep breath. The greater Houston region has experienced a nice reprieve from heavy rainfall today. That’s the good news. The bad news is that our atmosphere has recharged, and we are about to experience the worst of this potential flooding evening tonight and on Wednesday. The …
Read MoreGood morning. We’re now approaching the half-way point of a multi-day heavy rainfall event that began Sunday and should wrap up on Thursday. We remain at a Stage 2 alert on our flood scale, which means the Houston region is likely to see flash flooding. The bottom line is that …
Read MoreThe heaviest rainfall today has fallen east of Houston, from Chambers County to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Some locations have received more than 12 inches of rain and some serious flooding is underway. Closer to Houston, a slow-moving band of showers has established itself just north of the Houston metro area. …
Read MoreGood morning. We’re entering day two of a period that has the potential to bring significant rainfall and flooding across the metro area. The pattern is threatening because it may produce both short-term, intense rainfall as well as prolonged, widespread showers. Most of us should be fine in the end, …
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