Author: Matt Lanza

Back on Friday, I wrote in our weekend forecast discussion that “if the chance of a shower is about 10 percent Friday and Saturday, maybe it inches up to 15 or 20 percent Sunday.” We pride ourselves on honesty here at Space City Weather, and that will end up likely proving inaccurate. The reality is […]

The meteorological phenomenon we call “August” has mostly lived up to its normally unpleasant expectations so far in the Houston area. After hitting 101° on Wednesday, we topped off at 99° yesterday. Overnights have been especially oppressive, with Galveston tying an all-time record warm low temperature on Wednesday and Hobby Airport blowing through its record […]

Welcome to mid-August. We’ve passed the first couple of months of this hurricane season in the Houston area without too much heartburn. The good news today is that we don’t have much specific on our radar that is of concern for the Gulf. The bad news is that we are anticipating that by late August […]

There should not be any real surprises about the overall weather pattern over the next several days, as standard summer fare looks to be the rule for the Houston area. Today Friday might be the best opportunity for us to not see rain over the next week. Those rain chances certainly are not zero today, but any […]

Tropical Storm Isaias is bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, and as that storm exits, we actually look to settle down into a period of calm for a bit in the tropics. All good things must come to an end however, and as we go into the back half of August, we will […]

In summertime, few things are coveted more in Houston than a cold front, and as we flip the calendar from July to August, we’re going to get just that. Now, don’t get too excited. It is not really going to translate into opening the windows and letting the gloriousness flow. Rather, this will probably bring […]

Good morning. We’re here to offer up a brief update on Hanna as the storm works its way into Mexico this morning. Houston area Things are quiet this morning in Houston. There are some showers south and west of us and another batch moving across the coast of western Louisiana. As some of this works […]

Good morning everyone. Tropical Storm Hanna formed last night, and it wasted no time gradually getting itself organized. As this has been happening, Hanna’s forecast track has continued to shift south, taking most of the significant impacts expected from the storm out of the Houston area. A lack of significant impacts doesn’t mean we’ll have […]