Our weekend forecast:
HOUSTON – It was nice to get a brief break from the rain on Friday, but it won’t last long. More rain is expected this weekend, with a 40% chance of off-and-on showers throughout Saturday and Sunday. With plenty of outdoor events planned, be prepared for the possibility of thunder and rain.
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Time Change:
Don’t forget daylight saving time ends this weekend. Most devices will automatically change this for you, but ovens, microwaves, old cars, and wall clocks will need to be set back an hour before bed Saturday. 2AM becomes 1AM Sunday morning, which in theory gives us an extra hour of sleep. I say in theory because for this to occur you need to go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time Friday and Saturday night. For example, if you go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 7am both nights you’ll get an extra hour of sleep since 2am happens twice. This is also a good time to change the batteries on your smoke detectors and CO2 alarms.
Big changes for our sunrise and sunsets start Sunday. Early risers typically love this time change because our sunrise is in the 6AM hour starting Sunday. Sunset are an hour earlier near 5:30 PM.
Election Day:
We are tracking a cold front for the first work-week of November. Right now the timing looks to be late-Monday into Tuesday morning. This would bring rain for election day morning. This would also make the afternoon more pleasant with lower-humidity and highs in the mid-70s.
Timing on the front will determine when we get rain on election day. If the front stalls out we could see rain through the entire day. For this reason, we’re keeping chances in through the afternoon. It does look like the heaviest rainfall would be in the morning.
Tropical Outlook:
Hurricane season goes through November 30th and there is something brewing in the Caribbean. The red outline has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical system in the next seven days. We could be looking at a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico next Thursday or Friday. While not rare for a storm to be in the Gulf in November, for it to hit Texas would be unheard of this time of year. One big reason is our cool fronts steer storms east. I’ll keep you posted on what will be named Patty.
10-day Forecast:
There is another cold front coming next week. We’ll get a slight cool down Tuesday and Wednesday but it appears we start to warm up again late next week.
