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In brief: Houston’s heat continues, with daily highs in the mid-90s for the rest of the week. We’ll cool down ever so slightly this weekend, and low-end rain chances return next week. We’re also keeping a wary eye on the tropics, as the Caribbean Sea stirs. A note on the …
Read MoreIn brief: Houston will continue to see unseasonably warm weather, with high temperatures in the low- to mid-90s for most locations. The sunny pattern continues this weekend, with more late summer weather. There is the possibility of a cool front in about 10 days, but it is far from locked …
Read MoreIn brief: With high pressure asserting control over our region’s weather, the forecast period looks mostly hot, and mostly sunny, for the foreseeable future. At some point we’re going to start getting some fronts and a more fall-like pattern, but we are not going to reach that point this week. …
Read MoreIn brief: In this post we take a brief look back at the Francine forecast and some of our exasperations, and then look ahead at a period of much hotter weather. Summer is not over yet, and we’ll discover that this weekend. A brief word about Francine Here at Space …
Read MoreIn brief: Following a period of rainy weather, a cool front, and some lower temperatures due to the passage of Hurricane Francine, Houston is going back into the mid-90s this weekend. Moreover, pretty much all of next week looks fairly hot and sunny. It won’t be August-hot, but after a …
Read MoreIn brief: Francine is making its closest approach to the Houston area this morning, but remains a non-issue for the state of Texas. We’ll see one more cloudy and somewhat cooler day, with a chance of showers, before summer returns for a spell. We look to be solidly in the …
Read MoreIn brief: This is a short post to wrap up our coverage of Tropical Storm Francine, which as expected is having a negligible effect on Texas as it remains well offshore. We also take a look ahead at potential tropical activity over the next 10 days or so. Francine forecast …
Read MoreIn brief: Francine remains a strong tropical storm this morning, and we’re beginning to see the turn from northwest movement, to northern movement, to northeast that will ultimately carry the storm well away from Texas. Local impacts, for many not along the immediate coast, will be difficult to discern from …
Read MoreIn brief: The overall track forecast for Francine remains more or less the same, with the storm very likely to remain off the coast of Texas, and strike southwestern or south central Louisiana on Wednesday. This post discusses the impacts to Houston, and answers some of the burning questions we’ve …
Read MoreIn brief: Francine has rapidly developed on Monday and is nearing hurricane strength. In terms of a track forecast, it still appears as though the tropical system will remain far enough off the Texas coast to spare the Houston region of significant impacts. We’ll continue to watch things closely, however. …
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