Houston weather: Oct. 18 morning forecast

Alright, time now for a check of your weather. We know these temperatures aren't going to last long, so hopefully you can get out and enjoy it. It's going to be warming up later on in the week, but it won't be too bad, Angie. It definitely won't. In fact, if you do want to plan and head out to the Houston Pumpkin Fest, I'd say it is going to be absolutely gorgeous. And it's one of those days where you don't necessarily have to worry too much about your makeup smearing or your hair getting too frizzy because of all the humidity. In fact, we have some pretty low humidity that is going to make today and the rest of the next few days really, really pleasant. So if you do plan on heading out today, do keep in mind that this event does run until November 8th. it's right here in Discovery Green. Temperatures today will be increasing steadily throughout the day, but will remain mostly in the middle 70s for most of us. We could heat up into the higher 70s, but I think most of us will stay low to mid. In fact, you can see highs today are expected to stay about 75 degrees and under for most of the greater Houston area, and that is unfortunately going to increase as we move throughout the next week. But keep in mind there are some wind gusts that are going to be continuing not as strong as what we saw yesterday or even the night before but they're still going to be making an effect especially towards the coast we do have plenty of times throughout the day today where we will have wind gusts over 10 miles an hour in some spots near Galveston as of right now they already have wind gusts some of them are reading over 20 miles an hour so you just want to make sure even though the weather is going to be great in the low to mid 70s along the coast. If you do plan on heading into the water, you do want to make sure that you are being careful. There is a risk for rip currents until about 7 o'clock this morning. It is set to expire, but just because that warning expires doesn't mean the winds won't be affecting the water anymore. I do want to say if you do plan on heading out, just make sure you are careful. And if you are in a rip current, you want to make sure you don't swim directly against. you want to swim kind of horizontally or perpendicular to the the waters coming in there is currently a pressure system a low pressure system that we are watching just to the east coast of the United States that has about a 30 percent chance of development over the next seven days but for us here in Houston i think we just need to worry about the temperatures because they are absolutely gorgeous over the next several days if you don't have plans definitely make them We'll be heating up a little bit towards the rest of the week, but yes, absolutely beautiful week.