Sunday’s Forecast:
Sunday will be hot and humid with highs approaching the upper 90s and the heat index temperature ranging from 106° - 112°. Houston, and most of southeast Texas are in a heat advisory from noon to 7pm. All though we are under a dome of high pressure there is still a chance for a isolated shower or storm late afternoon and evening.
Sunday evening through the Early week a plume of Saharan Dust arrives. The dust should not impact air quality but it will create beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
Tracking the tropics:
A big update as of Saturday evening: Beryl is now a category 1 Hurricane. Making it the first hurricane of the 2024 season. Beryl is forecasted to rapidly intensify into a major Hurricane, with winds of 115 mph by Sunday as it moves through the Windward islands. Beryl will continue to move westward through the Caribbean Sea and, by Thursday, will approach the Yucatan Peninsula as a weaker Hurricane. We will continue to monitor how far north Beryl will travel once it moves closer to the Gulf of Mexico, but impacts on Houston seem unlikely.
Another tropical wave behind Beryl has a 70% chance of developing over the next 7 days. If it does develop, it will have plenty of warm water to help it strengthen.
A weaker area of storms in the Yucatan is forecasted to push into Mexico, but its chance of becoming a tropical storm or depression is 50% over the next 2 to 7 days. Its track will stay south with no impact on southeast Texas, and the area of high pressure over Texas prevents any effects on us.
10-Day Forecast:
Temperatures get hotter next week with Houston getting close to 100°. The 4th is firecracker hot!