Houston weather: Warm afternoons, pleasant nights on the way

All right, let's get a look at our forecast here, Amisha. Another really good day on tap. Yep, no complaints here, and I think most of you out there will agree. Now, like Anthony said a little earlier today, it felt a little bit hotter, and it was. In fact, we made it all the way up to 87 degrees out at Bush Airport for today, about four degrees shy of our record high of 91. So yeah, hotter, but not record heat. So at least it wasn't extreme heat. But it's several degrees above the average high of around 81 so overall it's a little toastier but nothing too crazy we've got more awesome weather ahead with pleasant mornings warm afternoons quiet weather extends into the weekend so it's going to feel great it's going to look great get outside take advantage while it sticks around now as we go through next week that's when we are expecting the pattern to kind of shift or change a little bit more clouds eventually and maybe some really good rain chances towards the end of next week but we'll worry about that next week right now we do still have that air quality alert for tomorrow like i said earlier that's extended through about 9 30 tomorrow evening and we also have very high ragweed pollen levels so if that kind of irritates you you may not want to be out there too much and also the higher ozone levels may have you wanting to limit that time outside tomorrow as well otherwise it's going to be gorgeous out there right now we're pleasant at 70 degrees. We've got comfortable temps all across the state. Closest rainfall down around south Texas and there's not much there. Of course, the craziest weather across the country really has been across the southwestern U.S. where for multiple days now we've had wild weather like confirmed tornadoes, which is pretty rare for the Arizona area. Two days in a row of tornado watches and you can still see that tornado watch east of Phoenix tonight and coming up very close to albuquerque and still a lot of severe storms going on we had reports of two inch hail added some of those storms golf ball to egg size hail so not the best scenario and big delays at the airports as well including san francisco and also the vegas area and even in phoenix so slowdowns there and we also have had some issues a little bit more minor across the northeastern u.s we do still have those coastal flood advisories and those are some impacts from post-tropical cyclone Josephine. So this is a system that popped up in the western Atlantic. It is moving away from the U.S. and it's not expected to have any major impacts to the U.S. or Canada, but it is going to have hurricane force winds by early tomorrow morning. So thank goodness it is rolling out of here and it's not going to be an issue for too much longer for the northeast. So we're looking great here. Close to perfect weather. Find a reason to get outside it is gorgeous next few afternoons if you are going to be out and about maybe going for a walk a bike ride doing a little work in the yard hanging out in the patio maybe doing some pickle ball on the golf course weather looking nice for all of it middle to upper 80s for the afternoon so yes that's a little above where we should be for this time of october but at least it's not bouncing back to record heat at least not quite texans tailgating for sunday morning looking awesome as well 9 10 a.m 69 about 73 degrees late morning temps around 11 76 a light easterly breeze plenty of sunshine no need for any umbrellas ponchos rain boots and it looks like the kickoff temps will be close to 80 around noon if you're heading out there to reliant this sunday should be another exciting game and we are looking for what win number three i think we're gonna get it so let's get out there and cheer our texans on all right let's talk about late next week because of course it's halloween and you may already have plans kids may be going out trick-or-treating we're looking like we're going to have more clouds more showers there's actually a system a tropical system in the eastern pacific its going to roll into mexico next week but whatever is left of it may actually enhance our rain chances for halloween next saturday so just keep that in mind we're not talking about canceling your plans but it may not be the nice quiet weather that we're enjoying now. But it will be that type of weather through about monday highs in the eighties lows in the fifties and sixties And then there are those small rain chances back from Tuesday through Thursday and it looks like rain chances get bumped up by next Friday and could linger for Halloween as well.