Houston weather: Oct 17 evening forecast

Well, Fox 26 is your Gulf Coast weather authority. Here's meteorologist John Dawson. John Dawson, it's giving leather weather, am I right? I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say that before. Leather weather. It's always sweater weather, right? You're not wearing leather today, are you? I'm not. No, okay, just looking there. Yeah, it's totally leather weather or sweater weather. It has changed. It's so pleasant here across southeast Texas. The last 31 days, look at all these above-average temperatures that we've had we had one day before yesterday and also before yesterday we had nine out of 10 days that was 90 degrees or more so not just above average but well above average and that has changed at least in the short term beautiful looking day outside as we sort of begin to kind of wind things up just a little bit 72 degrees on the thermometer mostly clear skies still a little bit of a breeze happening though 13 mile an hour winds sustained winds out of the northeast still that's drier air that's coming in very much again appreciated a little bit of a break from the humidity that we're so accustomed to some of us haven't even got out of the 60s folks up in Huntsville at 68 right now same thing over in College Station we've got 69 in Columbus and then lower 70s for the rest of us as it is again just a very comfortable and cool I'll call it day here in southeast texas an october day again that definitely can be appreciated breezy off as well though we have a few gusts that are in the 20s but overall these winds will eventually start to kind of start calming down a little bit as we get into tomorrow it'll be very similar to what we did this morning as far as those lows so if you're in the 40s this morning then you'll experience that again but less wind so it might even feel just a little bit chillier if you were up early this morning. Allergens are still a bit of a problem, specifically the ragweed. It's still very high. Didn't really get any rain with this front to help wash things out. So we're just kind of blowing all that pollen around a little bit with all the wind. And I do want to let you know that the National Hurricane Center this afternoon decided it's going to start watching this area of development off of the east coast. For sure, there's going to be a nor'easter forming over here And there is a slight chance if it lingers around some warmer water too long, it could end up being something tropical. No matter what, there's going to be a lot of rain, a lot of wind, a lot of surf all along the East Coast as that storm continues to develop. That's something that will be happening this week. We'll be watching that. But here locally, it's a pretty fantastic-looking October seven-day stretch here. We will be looking for that slow, gradual warming trend once we get back into work on Monday.