Tracking a weak cold front Wednesday

Isolated storms bring a brief cool down

Head index climbs to 108°-110°

Typical August heat in Houston. Tropics becoming more active.

Memorial Day will feel like 108°-110°

After a tumultuous night of storms throughout Harris County, many Houstonians have begun the process of cleaning up.

A Pasadena woman is thankful to be alive after The National Weather Service says an EF2 tornado ripped through her home.

Pasadena Animal Shelter’s roof was ripped off during Tuesday’s storms while people and animals were inside.

We are back in the triple digits Wednesday

As travel quickly resumes to normal, I can only imagine the crowds coming to the beaches for Spring Break. With good reason, the NWS has declared this week Rip Current and Beach Hazard Awareness Week. Last year, one rip current death occurred along Texas shores with as many as 76 nationwide.

The NWS put out the chart below showing the cold we went through, in terms of time: 44 hours straight of at or below freezing! NWS Cold ReviewThat 13° is the 6th coldest day on record for the month of February, BUT all of the colder days were either in February 1895 or 1899! Are we done with the cold? AdThe morning model runThere were a few rumors that we’d have another cold snap next Tuesday-Wednesday, but the latest GFS (American) model run squashes that. First, here’s the USA and you can see the blue areas of cold air the next two weeks stay well north of Texas:American Model courtesy of tropicaltidbitsA closer look at just Texas keeps Houston on the warm side:American ModelSo any big cooldown is a rumor for now!

How familiar are you with all the storm terms and hurricane categories? Do you know the difference between a Category 2 storm and a Category 5?

First, our record for Tuesday, May 5th is 94 from 1986, and right now we’re forecasting 94 (with a feels-like temperature near 100). Check out the Austin-San Antonio region where forecasters are calling for the very real chance to reach 100 degrees! I always talk about a southwest wind being a hot, dry wind for us and we’re expecting a large high pressure down in Mexico. Clockwise winds around that high will generate a strong southwest wind. The mini-heatwave won’t last long as another front arrives Wednesday, but get ready: Cinco de Mayo will be muy caliente!