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Happy Friday! Before we dive into the forecast, I just want to give a shoutout to Tim Zacharias at Cougar USA. I sat down with him a few weeks back on their Building Value podcast, and I got to talk a bit about Space City Weather, flooding, the freeze, and …
Read MoreI have to admit, I enjoyed Eric’s somewhat euphoric post at midnight. Though as the parent of a toddler and infant that slept — how can I say this? — poorly, for lack of a better word, it was a long night. I’m sure many of you with kids and …
Read MoreStorms are absolutely hauling their way into the Houston area tonight, faster than most of us expected earlier today. Good news, as you’ll see below. But they are intense. Rain is falling at a rate of 3 to 4 inches per hour on average in that intense red portion of …
Read MoreGood evening. The Houston area has been mostly fortunate through this rain event so far. We’ve managed to avoid very high impact rains, though we all finally got doused this afternoon and evening. Still, rain totals, while impressive were mostly manageable, aside from pockets of street flooding. You can see …
Read MoreFor the vast majority of the Houston area, today was pretty uneventful. Across Harris County, according to the Flood Control map, the max total was 1.64 inches along Buffalo Bayou at the Beltway. But as you went southwest along Highway 59, things escalated quite a bit. The max total in …
Read MoreWell, we sure hope you got to enjoy the weather yesterday and hopefully today too. Mid-May fronts with cool, comfortable air masses feel like a rare treat. Our morning low of 62° at Bush Airport this morning is the coolest morning this late in the season since May 25, 2017 …
Read MoreWe’ve had some stellar May weather to close out this week, and today will be no exception. But look for changes this weekend, leading to some unsettled weather next week. Drought update So, some good news! The rains of last weekend did a number on drought across Texas. About 20 …
Read MoreWe managed the mid-80s yesterday with dew points sitting in the 50s all day, which is pretty comfortable. We get another day or two of that kind of weather before things go back to pre-summer and the details of the forecast get more complicated. Today and Friday Look for lots …
Read MoreWith a fine, quiet stretch of weather beginning today for Houston, Eric and I thought it would be a good time to write a bit about the new climate normals released by NOAA on Monday night. When we compare weather to “normal” or “average,” these are the values we are …
Read MoreToday has worked out rather well so far for most of the area. South and east of Houston was minimally impacted as expected, with under an inch in most locales. North and west of Houston saw roughly 1 to 3 inches on average. The jackpot occurred in Waller County, as …
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