HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Get ready to bundle up! It will be a breezy and chilly Monday with the possibility for patchy frost to develop overnight into Tuesday morning.
A cold front passed through Southeast Texas on Sunday, allowing for a cooler, gusty northwesterly breeze to settle in. Temperatures will continue to fall to the low 40s by Monday morning, but with the breeze, we’ll have a morning wind chill that will make it feel like the low-mid 30s around sunrise. The rest of Monday will include more sunshine yet stay cool with afternoon highs only climb to near 60 degrees.
How cold will it get with the next cold front?
Because the front clears out the sky and keeps the sunshine around, highs will be in the 60s and 70s Sunday afternoon, but it will cold in the 30s and 40s at night. In fact, frost looks to be possible in parts of Southeast Texas on Tuesday morning.
When could we get our first freeze?
Long range signals indicate we probably have to wait until the second half of December for a chance of freezing weather in Houston, especially with the warmup on the way next week. On average, Houston historically gets its first freeze during the second week of December. This year it looks like we have to wait a bit longer.
When’s our next chance for rain?
After a dreary and damp end to last week, we’ve got a pattern flip on the way that will keep our forecast sunny and mild through mid-December. So as of now, our next widespread rain chance is more than 10 days out. There’s small, 10% chances for rain when fronts move through on Sunday and Friday, but otherwise nothing more than that at this point.
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