HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Do yourself a favor and enjoy Monday morning because it’s probably our last dip into the 50s until we get to the other side of summer. A major May heat wave is incoming this week that will feel more like the middle of July than the middle of May.
We’ll enjoy a crisp northwest breeze through the night that will send morning lows down into the upper 50s to start off our work and school week. The upper low that brought our lovely Mother’s Day weekend weather will start pulling away during the day and taking the clouds along with it. All the sunshine should allow temperatures to easily warm into the mid 80s, which is a typical mid-May reading.
Ozone pollution could be high enough to cause issues for folks sensitive to the lung irritant. Asthma attacks and a dry cough of possible in sensitive individuals.
Monday night the Gulf breeze will return to push lows temperatures back into the mid 60s, which is again another seasonal reading. Starting Tuesday, the May heat wave will make its presence know and stick around for the rest of the week.
A May heat wave?! How hot are we talking?
Well, it’s going to feel more like the middle of July than the middle of May. We predict record highs in the mid-90s will be tied or broken Tuesday through Friday. Additionally, it will be humid enough to push the heat index up to between 100 to 105 degrees. The hottest day of the week is likely going to be Wednesday, when we are predicting a record-breaking high of 97. If that verifies, it will be the earliest in the calendar year Houston has ever observed 97, breaking the old record from 2011 by 12 days. We are seeing a strong signal to our west around Austin and San Antonio that triple-digit heat will occur several days this week, and all-time record highs for May could even fall around the Hill Country. That’s where temperatures could peak between 105-110 degrees! Stay tuned.
Does this mean we won’t get any rain this week?
Bingo. This type of heat usually means a heat ridge is pushing the storm track away from us. We cannot rule out a stray shower for Friday and Saturday, but the stormy pattern of the last two weeks is now over.
This story comes from our news partner ABC13 Houston.
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