Tropical weather

Well, it’s over. The remains of Beta are crossing Galveston Bay this morning, and with all of the storm’s heaviest precipitation far to its east, we are done. Houston should begin to see some rather fine weather later today and Friday, on the backside of Beta with a northerly flow. And then, while we cannot […]

10:15 pm CT Tuesday: The remnants of Beta are continuing to trudge toward the east-northeast, and that’s good news for the greater Houston area. The strongest, outer band has already moved well east of the city, and now lies mostly north of Harris County. And it should keep right on going thanks to Beta’s progressive […]

4 pm CT Tuesday update: We’re starting to get a better handle on the forecast for the rest of today, tonight, and Wednesday when it comes to the potential for heavy rainfall. The good news is that we’re reasonably confident that this mess will begin to clear our of here by Wednesday morning, if not […]

11:15am CT Tuesday: For much of the last 24 hours a rain band of at-times broken storms has tracked upward along the Interstate 45 corridor and then more or less curved left, following the South Sam Houston Tollway. This has dropped about a foot of rain on Pearland and Missouri City, and nearly as much […]

8:10 am CT Tuesday: Effective immediately, we are elevating our Flood Scale alert to Stage 3 for parts of the Houston metro area along, and south of Interstate 10. This is where the heaviest rain should again fall today and perhaps tonight as Tropical Storm Beta continues to pump moisture into the region. For areas […]

11:55 pm Monday: Congratulations, everyone. We survived Monday—although for the southern half of Houston it was a rainy mess. Rainfall estimates show that some areas near the border between Harris County and Fort Bend and Brazoria counties received 6 to 8 inches of rain during the preceding 24 hours, and it has brought some waterways […]

Good evening. Training bands of moderate-to-heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Beta are continuing to move across the greater Houston area this evening. The heaviest rains from 6 to 9 pm fell generally to the south-southwest of Houston, from Friendswood and Pearland through Sugar Land. A few locations received 4 to 5 inches during this three-hour […]

7:55 pm CT Monday: Tropical Storm Beta is limping toward the Texas coast this evening, at a speed of about 5 mph, and will come ashore near Matagorda Bay tonight. It has maintained sustained winds of 45 mph today, but its overall organizational structure is poor. Now that the storm is nearing land, we should […]

1:45pm CT Monday: Tropical Storm Beta continues to slog toward the Texas coast this afternoon. In its 1pm update, the National Hurricane Center said the storm has weakened this morning, with sustained winds dropping from 50 to 45 mph, and a rise in the storm’s central pressure from 996 to 999 mb. This is another […]