Houston weather: Warm, lovely weekend; tracking Halloween rain chanes

Alright, let's get a look at the forecast here at 5:15 with meteorologist Amisha Shade. We're looking great, Anthony. We've got a lot of heat to do with this weekend, but of course we've gotten a break during the early morning hours with the pleasant 50s, even this morning. Many of you starting off in the 50s, but as we jump through the afternoon hours, of course those temps climb to the 80s, and it was the upper 80s again today in Houston, all the way up to 87. Not quite record heat. That would have been 91, but still a little too toasty for this part of October. 84 right now, but at least it's been absolutely phenomenal. Gorgeous, beautiful, bright blue skies. Air is very dry. Dew points are still in the 40s. So not a ton for us to worry about as far as our weather is concerned as we hop into another exciting weekend. We do have one or two issues, minor ones. We do still have that air quality alert through this evening. That does include all of Houston down to League City and Galveston. And the ragweed levels continue to skyrocket. We've gone from high levels to extremely high levels. So that may kind of irritate you a bit as we go through the weekend. But otherwise, across the region, it is fairly quiet, really statewide, with the exception of El Paso, West Texas. That's where we have the threat for some heavy rain, severe storms, flooding. And really, much of New Mexico is going to be dealing with that threat over the next day or two. However, here, continue to enjoy the calm, the quiet. We know H-Town weather can get crazy quickly, but not tonight. So it's going to be great weather for all of the Friday night lights, high school football games. Big one on the east side, we've got North Shore versus C.E. King. Galena Park ISD Stadium, I hear this game is already sold out, so I hope you already got your ticket. Great football weather for this one, 79 around kickoff at 7, 73 by 9, 69 degrees by 11 p.m. Let's talk about when we could have some changes in this weather pattern. It's not going to be through the weekend, but next week we'll start to see more clouds, more rain, and partially it's going to be due to the remnants of this system. This is Hurricane Vance, likely going to become a major hurricane in the eastern Pacific by either late tonight or early tomorrow and slam into central Mexico by the middle of next week. it's the 12th hurricane believe it or not for the eastern pacific not going to impact us directly but i think by the end of next week some of that moisture is going to make its way over into texas and eventually Houston, you'll see as we go into the future Friday, it's down around South Texas and then on Halloween there it is and we are going to have likely some enhanced rain chances from that tropical moisture so I know a lot of us are thinking about Halloween plans, kiddos are excited about trick-or-treating, maybe you're making the last minute changes or picks on your outfit for trick-or-treating so yeah it's going to be exciting but keep in mind there will be a decent chance for some showers on Halloween, thicker clouds doesn't appear to be a huge cool down Temps may get a little bit cooler depending on if our front can make it through here but just know we're watching it closely we'll let you know if any crazy weather is headed our way but right now just plan on a few showers then but a very nice weekend for the Texans, Sunday staying dry through Monday. Limited rain chances for Tuesday and Wednesday and then as we go into late next week it's a 30 percent rain chance by Thursday and then it gets bumped up to 50 percent for Friday and likely that rain sticks around at least for part of the day for your Halloween plans on Saturday. All right parents make sure you heed that warning there for Halloween okay.