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Houston’s weather for the next several days will be influenced by high pressure to our west, and a slightly drier atmosphere thanks to a more northerly flow. By this weekend our eyes will turn toward the Gulf of Mexico, and the potential for a tropical system to disrupt our weather. We still have a lot […]
Read MoreGood morning. The Houston region saw its first real taste of rainfall in two weeks early on Monday as a line of storms pushed from north to south through the area. It was hit or miss in the metro area, with some parts of the region picking up as much as 1.5 inches, and others […]
Read MoreOver the last week a pair of non-consequential tropical systems have formed over the Atlantic—Tropical Storm Josephine, which is weakening at sea, and Kyle, which has already dissipated. However as a more favorable pattern for rising air moves into the deep Atlantic tropics we can expect to see storms firing up in the main development […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the longest-running seasonal forecast program, based at Colorado State University, issued an updated outlook for the remainder of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. In a word, it’s going to be active. The forecasters are predicting a remarkable 15 more named storms this year, along with 10 additional hurricanes. This is very busy. The […]
Read MoreWith Hurricane Hanna behind us, the obvious question is, “What’s next?” We have one system at present to watch, and then the situation gets a little trickier to figure out. Tropical outlook in a sentence The disturbance just dubbed “Potential Tropical Cyclone 9” by the National Hurricane Center is the one we are watching for […]
Read MoreAt 5 pm CT on Saturday Hurricane Hanna made landfall along Padre Island, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. For Houston, our forecast remains unchanged. We will see periods of at-times heavy rainfall, but it should be intermittent enough that the worst impact we anticipate is some brief street flooding. Heavy rains should be […]
Read MoreGood morning. As of 7am CT, the National Hurricane Center has just upgraded Hanna to hurricane status, with sustained winds of 75 mph. The storm should make landfall near or just north of Port Mansfield later today. For the greater Houston area, this ultimately will probably yield little change to our overall forecast for a […]
Read MoreThis afternoon we’re issuing our first “flood scale” forecast for the Gulf disturbance, which is increasingly likely to move into Texas this weekend as a tropical depression or weak tropical storm. We are calling for a “Stage 2” flood event for coastal counties in the greater Houston area—Brazoria, Galveston, and Chambers as well as southeastern […]
Read MoreToday’s update will talk briefly about that Gulf disturbance coming to Texas this weekend, but more about what is behind that system as it appears the tropics are waking up, and they may not shut back down for a while. Tropical outlook in a sentence We expect a low-end system to form in the Gulf […]
Read MoreLast week, we discussed how 2020 had started off tremendously fast but slowed a bit. We’re coming out of that lull now, but thankfully what we are amassing is mostly curiosity rather than any serious impacts. Tropical outlook in a sentence While another system is possible off the East Coast, the Gulf is not expected […]
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