Tonight’s Forecast:

The showers and storms are diurnal in nature, meaning they thrive during the heat of the day but they taper down in the evening. This means we will be mostly dry overnight with warm and muggy conditions.

Thursday’s Forecast:

Thursday will once again be a more hit and miss storm pattern. But that still translates to parts of southeast Texas getting thunderstorms, with the chance for over an inch of rain.

Flood threat Thursday:

We return to a widespread rainy pattern with a low threat of street flooding. This threat stays with us through the start of the holiday weekend.

10-day forecast:

The benefit of having a weather pattern like this is it keeps temperatures in check. Highs are expected to be in the 80s and lower 90s through Friday of next week.

Tracking the tropics:

The National Hurricane Center is watching three tropical waves that have chances for development the next five days. Which ever forms first will become Danielle. As of Wednesday morning Invest 91L will remain over the Atlantic. If this changes we’ll let you know. Make sure you have our Hurricane Tracker App for updates on these systems and others that will form in the tropics.

No tropical system in the month of August:

We’ve had three named tropical systems this hurricane season. None have formed this month. If we don’t get a storm today, this will be the first time since 1997 we don’t get a named storm in the month. That year we finished the season with 7 storms. The same thing happened in 1961. That year finished with 12 storms. But one of them was category 4 Hurricane Carla that slammed into SE Texas.

Labor Day Weekend Forecast:

The holiday weekend will continue to bring showers and thunderstorms. This will keep temperatures in the upper-80s.

Rain is expected on Labor Day. Houston’s wettest Labor Day Holiday was in 1923 when we received 2.45″ of rain.