Author: Eric Berger

Good morning, Houston. As we watch the region’s first front approach our area, peter out, and die, I wanted to remind you one final time of Reliant’s sweepstakes to win a free AC System. We’ve already had one winner, but there’s still a second chance to win if you enter by next Tuesday. You can […]

Today is such a disappointing day, my friends. As we look off to the west, we’re going to see an approaching front that, by all appearances, is going to die on our doorstep. The map below shows the likely extent of the front’s cooling by Thursday morning at 10 am CT. If the front makes […]

Good morning. We’re now into the second week of September. A few of us had a friendly debate on Twitter this weekend about whether August or September was the worst month of the year in Houston, weather-wise. I’m definitely on Team August, for the simple reason that at least in September there is hope for […]

Hi everyone—just a quick Labor Day morning update here. We’ve got some good news and some bad news, and we’ll start with the latter. If you’ll recall last week, we were 50-50 on whether a fairly robust cool front would push through the region. Alas, we’re now pretty confident it won’t make it. Summer, such […]

The watchword for Houston’s weather in the coming days is uncertainty—with the main questions concerning whether it will rain locally over the next few days, and whether a front will push through Houston on Wednesday or so of next week. Thursday It’s going to be another very warm day along the coast, with highs in […]

Good morning. The main story of our weather continues to be heat—Houston’s high temperatures for most of the last week have reached 99 degrees or above—but after today our hottest weather and extreme heat indices should be in the rear view mirror. We expect to see a few more clouds today, and then better rain […]

Well, we made it. August has ended. You may recall at the outset of this month I wrote that August was a month to survive in Houston: “If you’re in Houston in August and the high temperature is not in the upper 90s or higher, the streets aren’t flooding, and you’re not concerned about an […]

Lost amid the concern about Hurricane Laura over the last week is that summer pretty much has chugged along and late August in Houston is doing late August things. Saturday’s high temperature reached 101 degrees at Bush Intercontinental Airport, and the dew points of around 80 degrees on some recent mornings have just been gross. […]

Well, it’s over for the coast. After making landfall early Thursday morning at Cameron, Louisiana, Hurricane Laura has continued to move northward at a fast clip, about 15 mph. At 7 am CT the center was located near Fort Polk, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. Sometime later today or this evening Matt […]