Saturday:
Lower humidity helped temperatures cool Saturday morning, southeast Texas waking up to 60 and low 70s. While 70° in Houston doesn’t seem that cool, the last time temperatures were below 71° was May 28th. It’s been a long humid summer.
Saturday afternoon warming to the upper 80s to low 90s. On Sunday it will again feel like summer with heat, humidity and high temperatures in the mid-90s and that continues into the new week.
Never trust the first fall cold front:
Two things I’m watching next week are tropical moisture from the Pacific and a cold front. The Pacific Ocean has two hurricanes, Cat 1 Odalys and Cat 5 Polo. Both of those will send tropical moisture to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Some of that moisture could arrive in Houston Wednesday with a cool front moving through at the same time. But what looked like the cold front moving through yesterday, now looks like the front will stall in Texas. That means we won’t get a cool down or lower humidity. But we could get off and on storms Tuesday through Sunday the 4th of October. We’ll keep updating this forecast with the changes that come along.
Tracking the tropics:
All is quiet in the Gulf. Tropical Storm Gonzalo continues to bring heavy rain and strong winds to Cabo Verde and is expected to move north through the weekend as it slowly weakens.
Tropical Storm Fay is well east of Bermuda and will bring no impacts to land.
So far this hurricane season we’ve had seven tropical storms. We have not had a hurricane in the Atlantic basin. The latest first hurricane to form was Gustav and Humberto, which formed on September 11th. This means our 2026 hurricane season set a record for the latest hurricane to form.
Extended forecast:
Our next chance of rain arrives next week. And there is the chance we get off and on rain through the first weekend of October.
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