Houston weather: Rain chances before Halloween night

All right, let's talk about your Halloween weather because people are interested, you want to know, and we do have some potential issues for Halloween weekend. A part of the reason why we do have the rain chances that we have, well, we've got tropical moisture that will be streaming in. And you can see that big blob of yellow and red. That is tropical depression Vance. It is rapidly weakening, but even in its weakened state, the remnants of Vance could kind of haunt us over the next few days because that tropical moisture is going to spill into parts of Texas especially western and central Texas over the next day or two and that is going to mean the risk for flooding you can already see a flood watch posted right around Midland for parts of West Texas flash flood warnings just east of El Paso so that gives you an idea of kind of what is to come over the next few days we will have at least a low threat for maybe a few brief heavier rain showers especially Saturday morning Saturday afternoons. You can see even that low marginal flood threat impacting some of our eastern counties for Halloween, like Liberty County, Chambers County and parts of Polk and San Jacinto counties. Don't think it's gonna be widespread flooding, but there could be some heavy downpours. The good news, though, I think the majority of the rain will fade by trick or treat time on Saturday night. So breaking it down the next three days, it's only a low 10% shot for showers tomorrow with some slightly drier air building in up to a 40% chance, though, Friday afternoon, 30% Friday night, 60% our highest chance for rain during the day Saturday. I think by late Saturday afternoon, that rain is starting to push out and by Saturday night, that chance for rain drops to about 20%. It's not gonna be a ton of rain here. I think the majority of the flood threat is going to be back towards Lubbock and Midland. You see this model through the weekend, showing the potential for 2, 3, maybe four inches of rain there, but not that optimistic that we're going to get heavy rain here. So be a close call. We'll have to wait and see, but just make sure to have a backup plan, maybe inside just in case that rain overstays. It's welcome. It hangs out a few hours longer than we want it to on Halloween night. For tomorrow, though, we're not going to have to worry about too much rain. It is isolated a 10% chance. It's going to be warm out there, though, for this time of October. 84 degrees, 81 for the high Friday. The rain will be building in, especially Friday afternoon, Friday evening into the nighttime. All right, let's jump ahead to Saturday night. trick-or-treat time. A lot of kiddos may be heading out between 6 and 7 p.m. That's going to be around sunset time, 6:30, 6:35, and there's still a 50-50 shot for rain, but if you're going out a little bit later, 8, 9, 10 p.m., that rain chance dips to 10 to 20 percent, and temps will likely kind of hover in the 70s all evening long for Saturday. So our trick-or-treat weather is looking pretty good. It looks like we will have a much better chance for strong storms, heavy rain, unfortunately on election day Tuesday. So take advantage of early voting. You may get to avoid some messy weather that could pop up on us with the strong cold front on Tuesday. So we'll be watching that. Also keep in mind we fall back this weekend. Daylight saving time ending. I'm looking forward to that extra hour of sleep but you may not like that early sunset. That's going to be at 5 34 p.m on Sunday.