Thursday’s Forecast:

We’re starting the morning with clear skies and cold temperatures, mostly in the 40s. We’ll warm to the lower 70s this afternoon with sunny skies and light winds.

Cold front this weekend:

We get delightful weather through Friday. A cold front moves into Southeast Texas Saturday afternoon. It will bring rain Saturday into Sunday morning. The front moves off the coast Sunday afternoon. However, there is a chance we get what is called overrunning. That is rain falling after the cold front moves through. That could keep the rain around through Sunday night. We’ll keep you posted.

10-day forecast:

Temperatures cool Sunday to the 60s but it doesn’t last long. We’re back in the 70s Tuesday of next week.

A Look Back At 2022 Weather

Rain in 2022:

Looking back at 2022 a few things stick about the rain we received in Houston. First, it sure is good that we had January, August and November. Without these months our drought would be dire in SE Texas. Also, June was a tough month. Our average amount of rain in June is 6.00″. We only received .13″! While most of our months were below average, only September was drastically dry like June. We finished the year in Houston 8.47″ below average. All of our major recording station in SE Texas had a deficit with College Station closest to average.

Drought update:

We are drought free in SE Texas. August and November rains helped tremendously for our area. The hill country didn’t get any help these months so we still have an extreme and exceptional drought. The panhandle is also still suffering from at least a moderate drought.

Temperatures in 2022:

The one thing that sticks out to me on the below graph are our hottest months were also our driest month. After a below aveage start to 2022, we heated up in April and we dried out. June and July were hot! August wasn’t too bad, we were really close to our thirty year average. (Our average is based on the past 30 years.) And even though we had a really cold week in Houston in December, we still finished the month above average.