Houston weather: Pleasant Wednesday ahead

Over to the forecast now. 5:16, Ramesha is joining us because we've got storms brewing right now. So we want to give you guys an idea about how long this is going to stick around. Yeah, we got a couple of disturbances to our west, Anthony, and these are kind of combining to bring in big waves of rain, some strong storms. So it looks like it's going to be kind of a messy, stormy evening and overnight. And we'll clear most of this out, I think, for the majority of our Veterans Day. Right now, some of the strongest action on the radar, really from Wharton to El Campo. This is Highway 59, about 17 lightning strikes, heavy rain, and of course, the chance for some small hail. No severe alerts. But it is certainly going to slow you down, so be careful out there. The Houston area, over to Katy, it's mainly just some showers that are lighter, no lightning. Tomball, Spring, Aldine, Atascocita, you're picking up some of those light showers as well. And the rain gets a little bit heavier up towards Bryan and College Station. But as we jump to the south, of course, we've had some downpours and some stronger storms back towards El Campo and Wharton. So certainly watch out for those stronger storms and the heavy rain. It's going to be difficult to see for the evening rush. So far, rain for the most part. Over the last day or so has been manageable. Most spots showing up less than an inch, but south of Sealy, we've got almost one and a half inch rain total there, but around a half inch or less for Houston, Sugar Land, and about three quarters of an inch of rain showing up for Rosenberg. We've got more on the way. We're not under a big flood threat, but we do have that low marginal one out of five possible risk for maybe a brief severe storm through this evening and the late night hours. It's really from Houston to Galveston down to Bay City, Palacios, and the main threat is that low hail risk. It's a 5% risk for what we would call severe hail. So that would be hail maybe up to about the size of a quarter. So certainly watch out for that, of course, the lightning, the heavy rain. Right now, though, not getting anything severe in Houston. It's severe traffic out there. It's moving very slow. We've got the light rain showers rolling over H-Town right at the rush hour, and, of course, that's slowing things down. Also, with the thick clouds and some showers, temperatures are being held back as well. We've got widespread 60s for most spots, and we will likely stay there for the next few hours, dipping only to about 59 degrees late tonight. So what's going to happen with the rain? Well, we've got a trough, an upper low, bringing a lot of moisture, helping to trigger these showers and storms. So by 8 p.m., still a decent chance for scattered downpours. Going into the late-night hours, our high-resolution model showing even more rain action could pop up on us, along with some stronger storms from Sugar Land to Houston to League City and Angleton. This is 4 a.m. early on your Veterans Day morning. Going into the 6, 7 a.m. time frame, still the threat for some heavy downpours. for the early morning rush for tomorrow and then we will finally start to see the majority of this push out I think by 9, 10 a.m. tomorrow and then most of the rest of the Veterans Day should be drier. So that was our high resolution model. This is our GFS model once again showing a decent chance for downpours around 11 p.m. midnight, 4 a.m. still getting in on some rain, maybe a little bit of hail and thunder. But then after that we dry things out. So if you're going out to a parade for Veterans Day tomorrow, other events, it looks like Like it is going to be mostly dry after early tomorrow morning. Then we're going to be watching this next front drop in. This front likely won't bring much in the way of rain, but it will bring in some nice cool air for Friday morning and Saturday morning with many spots dipping to the 40s. So that will be the next front. And after that, we'll have to worry about a big chance for rain over the weekend. So we're kind of starting to get in this very unsettled weather pattern. But for tonight, down to 59, there's a 70% chance for rain. Some of the rain could be heavy, few strong storms mixing in. I think hail, lightning are going to be the main threats. For Veterans Day tomorrow. We're up to 75. We get rid of the widespread rain early, so most of the day pleasant and dry. Absolutely gorgeous for Thursday and Friday with mostly sunny conditions, temps near 80 degrees. But behind that Thursday morning front, there are the chilly mornings. Friday morning, Saturday morning, low 50s for Houston, likely 40s north of Houston. So enjoy the brief chill, get ready for rain tonight, and then our next big chance of rain likely coming on Sunday. And I've got a 60% chance right now, but I may have to bump that up even more if the models continue trending towards the wetter side.