HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Our next weather system is quickly approaching and will bring a cool, cloudy and wet end of the work week with rounds of rain between Wednesday night and Friday morning.
Temperatures will again start off cold this morning, and while you might be lucky enough to get a little morning sunshine, the low clouds returning from the Gulf will quickly blot out the sun. The Gulf breeze will push in milder air, warming temperatures into the 60s for most, but some communities north of Houston may not make it out of the 50s if the clouds are thicker than expected. Scattered showers are expected to develop in the afternoon and evening as the rain chance grows to 90% at night. The rain chance will peak with the arrival of our next cold front early Thursday morning.
Any severe weather or storms expected with this next rainy system?
Not necessarily this time. Generally this is a manageable, rainy system that our drought conditions will thank us for. However, some of these showers could grow and intensify into weak thunderstorms, bringing locally heavy rainfall, thunder and lightning late Wednesday night that make up and your family up. There’s also the chance we see a few local flood alerts with minor street and area flooding possible mainly south of I-10 along the coast Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
How long will the rain chances and clouds stick around this time?
The rain chances will linger all the way into Saturday morning, and we won’t completely shake the clouds until sometime on Sunday. Thursday won’t be a washout, but there’s a 60% chance you’ll get some rain off and on through the day under an overcast sky. The rain chance drops a little more down to a 40% chance of showers on Friday. It now looks like some of that rain could linger into Saturday morning, so we ‘ve introduced a small chance of rain while we get a better handle on the timing for your planning purposes.
How much rain should we expect to get?
We expect 1-2″ of rain to be fairly common in Southeast Texas with the 2″ totals more likely in our coastal counties.
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