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Good morning. The major weather story in the United States continues to have nothing to do with Houston. Now-Tropical Storm Ian has continued its devastating trek across central Florida overnight, bringing strong winds and deluging rainfall to areas such as Orlando, and knocking out power to one-quarter of the state. …
Read MoreGood morning. The majority of the Houston region has dropped into the low 60s this morning as cool, dry air blankets the area. This week’s front will have sticking power as Texas falls on the backside of the extremely powerful Hurricane Ian, which will bring a catastrophic storm surge to …
Read MoreLike some of you I am sure, being stuck in a cold house with my wife, kids, and mother-in-law in the middle of the February 2021 freeze was the tipping point for us. It was time to get a generator. Also like many of you as a result of the …
Read MoreGood morning. Every year at Space City Weather we like to mark the day following the arrival of the season’s first real cool front as “Fall Day,” and today is that day. Matt and I really feel that this should be a holiday in Houston, so this year we’re actually …
Read MoreMy friends it has been a long—so very long —summer. We have seen record warmth in June and July, and plenty of high temperatures in the upper 90s during the last week. A total of 131 days have come and gone since Houston’s high temperature first hit 95 degrees this …
Read MoreGood Sunday to you. With the potential of a major hurricane in the Gulf in 3 days, we just want to post to reassure our Houston readers that this storm will not impact Texas and offer an update for our neighbors to the east. Just to reemphasize, for Houston, we …
Read MorePlease note: Tropical Storm Ian is highly unlikely to have direct impacts on Texas, aside from some coastal swells later next week. In fact, a reasonably strong cold front remains on track for Houston on Monday, bringing cooler and much drier air—dewpoints in the upper 40s, anyone?—into the region for …
Read MoreAutumn. August. Both are basically the same, right? We hit 98 degrees officially in Houston yesterday, our hottest late September day since 2005. We have a shot at meeting or exceeding that level again today and maybe again on Monday before we can hopefully be done with this level of …
Read MoreGood afternoon, all. I just wanted to jump in with an update because we’re continuing to receive a lot of questions about the tropical system that’s forming in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. I’ll put the bottom line right up top: While there remains a lot of uncertainty about this tropical …
Read MoreGood morning. Today marks the autumnal equinox, when the sun shines directly over the equator. Put another way, for the northern hemisphere today is the first day of fall. Alas, it will not feel like fall outside, but rather the dead of summer. In fact, Houston faces five more very …
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