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Drier air moves in tonight!

Highs will still be in the upper-80s Friday

A strong front moves in Sunday. (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Tonight’s Forecast:

Overnight tonight we will see clearing skies, cooler and drier air set in with lows in the lower 60s for most.

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Temperatures will drop to the 60s. (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Friday’s Forecast:

Friday will still be warm, but slightly less humid! This will help it feel much more pleasant that what we saw today. Expect partly cloudy skies with highs in the upper-80s.

Expect sunshine! (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Cold fronts & hurricane season:

While hurricane season doesn’t end until November 30th, It’s over for SE Texas. The reason is our fall fronts. Once we get our first strong cold front, our upper level wind pattern changes. We now get more of a consistent northerly wind which places a block on tropical systems moving into our area. With reliable records going back to the mid-1800s, we’ve never had a storm hit us past October 16th. 1991 was the year category one hurricane Jerry hit SE Texas.

A wind shift blocks storms from moving north (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
Fall fronts change our wind direction (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
Fronts block tropical systems from moving into SE Texas (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)
The latest hurricane to hit SE Texas was October 16, 1989. (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

10-day Forecast:

Our next strong cold front arrives Monday of next week. That front will drop our afternoon highs to the 70s with lows in the 50s!

We will have much cooler weather next week. (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

Tracking The Tropics:

Tropical Storm Karl is drifting south and expected to make landfall in Mexico this weekend. Make sure you have our Hurricane Tracker App for updates on this system and others that form in the tropics.

Karl is headed to Mexico. (Copyright 2022 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

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Chief meteorologist and recipient of the 2022 American Meteorological Society’s award for Excellence in Science Reporting by a Broadcast Meteorologist.

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