HOUSTON – It’s hard to believe that we’re already almost halfway through the month of March.
One holiday that comes up around this time is St. Patrick’s Day! Although St. Patrick’s Day is on a Monday this year, it’s a fairly celebrated holiday to get out and have some Irish food.
Let’s get you an early look at the forecast, so you can plan accordingly:
Thankfully, the forecast for Houston this year is lucky!
St. Patrick’s weekend looks to go by with little tricks from the leprechaun.
An isolated chance of rain and storms are possible Saturday morning ahead of our next cold front. This is mainly for our northern and eastern most counties.
Behind the front, dry westerly winds kick in and keep us comfortable. You may want to hang on to your leprechaun hats, the winds may be gusty from time-to-time, especially Saturday afternoon. This also brings in the chance for elevated fire weather concerns for most of our counties. This includes portions of Trinity County, Walker County, Montgomery County, Wharton County, Jackson County, and all of Houston County, Madison County, Brazos County, Grimes County, Austin County, Colorado County, Washington County, and Burleson County.
Once we get to Sunday, our winds shift to the north as high pressure settles in, cooling us off by a few degrees, but we’ll still be in the upper 70s with plenty of sunshine.
For those celebrating the day of, you can expect zero green to show up on the radar, as gold sunshine shines in the sky and warm temperatures take over Houston! Don’t forget those sunglasses!
We’ll be pretty dry, too, for most of the day after Saturday’s cold frontal passage. We start to get southerly flow during the day Monday, which will increase our humidity in the evening.
It won’t be too hot or too cold out there, it’ll be like finding a pot o' gold at the end of a rainbow.
In fact, take a look at how previous St. Paddy’s Days compare:
Here’s some St. Patrick’s Day climatology!
I dug a little deeper, looking at how this year will compare to the last 25 years. Did you know...
- This will be the first year in the last 5 years that we won’t see rain on St. Patrick’s Day. Before that, we went almost 10 years (2010-2019) without a drop of rain on St. Patrick’s Day.
- The average high for St. Patrick’s Day is 74°. Even though we’ll be above average by only a few degrees, out of the last 25 years, all but 7 years have seen above average temperatures!
- 88° may have been the hottest day on record set back in 1908, but at the turn of the century, the highest temperature recorded on St. Patrick’s Day was 85°. If we hit 78° on Monday, that’ll tie for 7th place for the warmest St. Patrick’s Day since 2000.
- There also was one year that saw snow! This was back in 1892. At least it won’t be cold enough to snow on Monday!
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