Houston weather: Heat wave moving in Monday afternoon

Okay, so you know how very often we can start our day out, you know, very hot and sunny. And then by the end of the day, you've got big thunderstorms. Well, that happens sometimes to in places you might not imagine, like the deserts of the southwestern U. S. In particular, in Arizona, they're in their rainy season right now, which we call the southwestern monsoon and a weather chaser storm chaser caught this amazing video of and I tell you what, it's um, it's do we have a video or should I walk over? Okay, we'll go ahead and walk over. So we have. Okay, so this is where the southwestern monsoon kicks in and this is what it looks like. So look at that. There's a chapel and then rolling over. This is this just crazy, ominous looking thunderstorm. So what happens this time of the year is they could still get up to like 110 115 degrees out there in the phoenix area. And then you have these afternoon heavy thunderstorms that roll in. And what's interesting is sometimes you can get dust storms coming out of these. You could also have the phenomenon where you have a big thunderstorm and the rain can evaporate into the air as it falls. And you might not even get very much rain, but it sends some high winds down toward the ground. Or you could actually get some pretty good rain. And that does look like a rain shaft. So they did get some rain out there in some locations, and it just turns into a muck and just kind of gross and a lot of lightning, too. So that is a look at what is called the southwestern monsoon, and it actually happens around the world, too. They get it like an India. It's just a seasonal reversal of the winds. All right. And this is what that looks like today. That little green area is the area in southern Arizona, where they have a slight risk for seeing severe thunderstorms. The much larger area of severe weather is here, the Great Lakes and the Midwest, and that's all rotating around the outside of this area that doesn't have thunderstorm risk, and that's a big area of high pressure that you could see here on this map, which shows us like the mid level steering currents, and we have high pressure there between Denver and Dallas. And so all of the stormy weather rotates around the outside of that, and beneath it, you just bake. And that's where we are going to be for the day today. Now, for right now, it feels nice out there. It's really not all that offensive. Temperatures are in the middle and upper seventies. The tropics are perfectly quiet right now. Got a little bit of Saharan dust in the Gulf and high pressure in the Gulf. So everything's just very quiet. We have this buzz saw of a category five hurricane named Genevieve that's in the Pacific Ocean. It is not hitting land. It's not threatening land. I mean, other than sending some big waves toward the west coast of Mexico in the Baja Peninsula, it just looks incredible to behold. This is probably about as strong as it's going to get today, and then eventually it'll start to weaken. There's another system called Fausto. This one's been going on for several days, still holding on to category one hurricane strength, although it's losing a lot of its punch and it's headed toward Hawaii. It should pass to the north of the Hawaiian Islands and weakened by the time it gets there, probably just as like a mid range or low range tropical storm. A warm, quiet morning for us gives way to another hot day yesterday. How hot do we get yesterday? If you were outside 95 at Hobby 97 at Bush Airport and a lot of the suburbs were only like 94. I say only because that's average to slightly below average. Today should be hotter than that will have a good chance of hitting 97 to 99. Look for upper seventies overnight tonight. Tomorrow, another chance of hitting 100 degrees, and there's a slight chance that we get in on a couple of late day thunderstorms. Can't rule that out. It's like a 10 to 20% chance, and we'll maintain that through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with high temperatures close to 100. Now, coming up this weekend, that big ridge of high pressure that I showed you the big age that slides away just a little bit closer to New Mexico and Arizona, and it opens up the opportunity for a front to come in from the north and maybe give us some scattered thunderstorms this weekend.