Author: Eric Berger

Good afternoon. We’re continuing to monitor the threat of heavy rainfall during the overnight hours as a front sags into the Houston area, and stalls. And at this point, we believe this threat warrants a Stage 1 alert on the Space City Weather Flood Scale. However, we’re following the situation closely, and it may require […]

Good morning. While we anticipated widespread rainfall on Monday, the intensity of the storms that developed over central Houston—in one area near downtown rainfall rates briefly exceeded a rate of 4 inches per hour—was not expected. Overall it’s a good reminder of the potential of heavy rainfall from the kinds of moist air we can […]

Good morning. After rather boring weather last week, there are two significant weather issues to track this week. First up, as experienced by some parts of the city of Saturday and Sunday, is the potential for moderate to heavy rainfall due to moist air moving in from the Gulf of Mexico. Those rain chances should […]

For most of Houston, it’s been two weeks since substantial rain fell across the area. Compounding the problem has been that most days since then have been sunny and hot, allowing for ideal drying of soils. While rains earlier this spring have helped keep Houston out of a drought, the top layer of soils in […]

Our hot and sunny weather will continue for a few more days before high pressure moves away, and the pattern begins to—slowly, probably—change this weekend. Any widespread rainfall will likely have to wait until next week, however. Wednesday With sinking air, we will see lots of blue skies today. Although a few isolated showers may […]

As I type this, it is 5:55am and already beginning to get light outside. Some readers will surely disagree, but such early sunrises in June always play havoc with my sleep schedule. Fortunately (for me, at least), we have already passed the earliest sunrise of the year, and beginning Thursday the sunrise time for Houston […]

Good morning. High pressure will dominate our weather this week, but it won’t be completely oppressive. Summertime highs typically peak in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s to 80 degrees in August. But this week, we should see more June-like weather with highs in the low- to mid-90s, with overnight temperatures in […]

Conditions this morning are spectacular across Houston, with temperatures in the 60s for most locations. Cleveland and Conroe hit the upper 50s! Dewpoints at many locations on Wednesday dipped below 50 degrees, a real rarity for June. Happily, this pattern should be with us through most of the weekend before humidity levels really start to […]

Nearly three months have passed since we first addressed COVID-19 and the then-unknown effect of weather on its spread in warmer climates. Since that time we have learned some things, and have three months of data to draw upon in Texas. From this we can conclude that although weather may have some modest effect, it […]

Winds have shifted to come from the north this morning, and dewpoints are falling in the wake of a cold front passage. On Tuesday morning at 6am CT, the dewpoint temperature at Bush Intercontinental Airport was 75 degrees; this morning at the same time it is 55 degrees. The lower the dewpoint, the drier the […]