Author: Eric Berger

Good morning! As we get closer to the weekend our overall pattern remains more or less the same, with three more partly to mostly cloudy warm days, a transition day on Sunday, and somewhat cooler weather next week. Overall the forecast is pretty boring, and after last year’s hurricane season …

See full postHouston’s weather to remain warm and humid until Sunday

After several days of partly to mostly sunny skies, clouds are back on the menu for Houston, along with increasing levels of humidity. Temperatures across the region are unlikely to fall below the 60s for most areas until Sunday night, by which time a front should drop us back into …

See full postBrisk southerly winds will amplify warming trend for the region

Data are in for the country as a whole in February, and it shows the contiguous United States experienced the 19th coldest February on record, which goes back 127 years. Temperatures were 3.2 degrees below the 20th century average, according to NOAA. This was the country’s coldest February since 1989. …

See full postTexas just experienced its 11th coldest February on record

Good morning! Houston just experienced—in my opinion at least—the nicest weekend of 2021 so far. After all of that sunshine and cool, dry air we’ll see a warming trend and likely reach the low 80s this week before our next front works through the area next weekend. Rain chances will …

See full postHouston will warm up quite a bit this week

Houston’s weather now turns rather boring—and since we’re in March that means good things like dry air and moderate temperatures—so there’s not a whole lot to say about the forecast. Overall, expect some great Spring weather in the days ahead. Wednesday We’re starting out mostly in the 40s this morning, …

See full postHouston’s weather: Spring-like and pretty dull. Which is great.

A quick note before we jump into the weather: My book on the origins of SpaceX, LIFTOFF, is available in bookstores everywhere today. It has received tremendous reviews so far, and I could not be more excited to share this remarkable story with the world. I must say, I put …

See full postLooking back at Houston’s wild February, and what spring holds

Good morning. Before jumping in to the forecast, I wanted to briefly talk about the recent sharp cold snap Houston experienced, and its effects on mosquitoes. Unlike a regular freeze, widespread temperatures in the teens may have some significant effect on populations. A recent study found that temperatures below 20 …

See full postHouston to see more sunshine, dry air this week

It was only about six weeks ago that some readers asked whether winter was over. This question came after a week of very spring-like weather in early January. Our advice at the time: “decidedly not.” Now that we are a little deeper into February, with March just around the corner, …

See full postSo, is winter over now for Houston?

Houston enjoyed a block of four solidly sunny, splendid days from Saturday through Tuesday in the wake of last week’s Arctic freeze. But now the sunshine party is over, with clouds and humidity taking its place. This is likely to remain the case for the next week or so. In …

See full postGoodbye sunshine (and winter), and hello clouds