Houston weather: Hot, humid Labor Day Monday

All right, Mike, take it away. Always a hard act to follow, of course. Well, let's talk about what's happening in the tropics. Nothing in the Atlantic. The Atlantic Basin is what we call the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or Gulf of America, Gulf of whatever. Across the Caribbean, it's been incredibly quiet. I don't think there's been one single system that's made it into the Caribbean all season long. Everything has been in the Gulf, except for Dali, which was very short in the Atlantic, and a tiny, very questionable storm named Cristobal. And everything else has kind of moved over our area, strangely enough. But everything looks quiet for now, I'm glad to say. So the Gulf looks good. There's nothing really brewing out there. I would say that that trend will probably continue, meaning that if anything were to form over the next two, three weeks, it probably would be in the Gulf as opposed to anywhere else. So these are like storms that form just close by, and so sometimes you don't have as much time to prepare for them. But I think we've had our share so far this year. Out in the Pacific Ocean, yes, that big buzzsaw is Category 3, Hurricane Lowell. And right now, packing winds of about 115 miles per hour. Once again, it's threatening Hawaii. Now, it doesn't look like it's going to make a direct hit, but still, the islands of Kauai, these far western islands, are going to be getting in on that western, or excuse me, the right side of the circulation, which will bring us some high winds, dangerous amounts of rainfall, and also some very high waves, the whole thing. Everything you would expect with a major hurricane. So it's been an unusually active season in Hawaii for hurricanes. 76 degrees currently here in H-Town, not bad at all. We have a little bit of rain that's been popping up over in Chambers County here, so that's about it. But this is just the beginning of what's a very typical summertime pattern for us, where we have some morning showers along the coastline and then afternoon storms inland after it gets hot. So after a steamy morning, we'll look for some Labor Day afternoon storms. It doesn't look like anything major, but I am watching just this potential for late afternoon that the primary threat would be maybe some isolated strong winds coming out of some of the stronger thunderstorms. Otherwise, it's just going to be a muggy night tonight, another hot day tomorrow. And then Wednesday, it does look like the rain chance goes up a little bit. We'll have a slight increase in moisture levels across the area, and then a daily chance for some scattered storms taking us all the way through the end of the week.