HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — You’ll want to keep your eye to the sky on this Memorial day as we have a greater chance for rain and even strong storms.

We’ll keep a partly cloudy sky and steamy conditions Monday morning with temperatures starting out in the mid 70s to low 80s. We’ll start off dry for most, but by mid-morning, the first few showers and storms of the day could approach College Station and our northern counties. A better chance for scattered showers and storms for the rest of Southeast Texas will arrive during the evening and overnight hours. Few could be strong to severe and bring hail, damaging winds, and localized heavy rains. An isolated tornado can’t be ruled out, though the risk for that is pretty low. Besides the rain and storms, it’ll be another hot and breezy day with high temperatures climbing back into the low 90s.

Any more severe weather or flooding expected this week?

With the kind of pattern setting up this week, we can’t rule out a shower or storm being on the strong to severe side Monday through Friday this 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 pick 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.

Will it be just as hot with these rainy days?

Not necessarily! With rain and the inherent cloud cover we’d get during these rainy and stormy days, afternoon high temperatures for this week and into the first few days of June will likely be closer to their seasonal average, in the mid-upper 80s. The catch though is if a shower or storms rolls through. While that will cool you off in the short term, it’ll also make it feel extremely muggy too at times. We are also expecting mold counts to go up with week during this unsettled and rainy stretch.

Hurricane seasons begins in less than 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.

This story comes from our news partner ABC13 Houston.

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