HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — We’re still feeling the steam on this Sunday, with feels-like temperatures heading to 100 degrees this afternoon.
Sunday will start off humid and a bit cloudy with that morning heavy morning humidity, and we’re not ruling out a few showers developing along the coast and moving inland for the first part of the day. Otherwise we’re expecting another sunny and hot day with afternoon highs in the mid 90s. Winds will pick up too, gusting out of the south at about 25 mph at times.
What can we expect for Memorial Day?
Monday will start off humid once again and temperatures will rise back into the 90s once again. But by Monday afternoon, a slow-moving front will begin to dip across north Texas. Any showers and storms that develop along that front will charge southward towards the coast Monday afternoon and evening. Some of these storms could be strong to severe as well, with hail, damaging winds and street flooding as potential threats. Portions of Southeast Texas are within the severe weather risk area of Monday with the best chance for severe weather north of Houston and I-10, so storms will likely be strongest farther north and weakening as they track south towards the coast Monday night.
Any more severe weather or flooding expected next week?
With the kind of pattern setting up next week, we cant rule out a shower or storm being on the strong to severe side Monday through Friday of next week. Hail, gusty winds and heavy rains will be the main threats with the strongest storms that develop. As for rainfall amounts, most of Southeast Texas will pik up 1 to 3 inches of rain collectively over the next 7 days. Coastal communities could see less and our far northern counties could see more. Street flooding will be a concern as the heavy rain falls.
Hurricane seasons begins in just over a week. What can we expect this season?
Hurricane season begins on June 1st and this year we are anticipating another active one. Both hurricane outlooks from NOAA and Colorado State University predict an above normal season. From NOAA specifically, the predication is 13 to 19 named storms, 6 to 10 hurricanes and possibly 3 to 5 major hurricanes. Two big reasons why are because of the lack of an El Nino or La Nina and the trend of seeing warmer than normal ocean temperatures. And while these outlooks aren’t landfall forecasts for the United States, given these conditions there is the possibility for storms to move into the Gulf this year.
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