Houston weather: Sunny, breezy Thursday ahead

Good morning and happy Thursday everyone. Hope you're having a great start to the day. The sun is going to be back. I feel like that needs to be it. End of forecast. Let's not talk about the rain further on. Just kidding though. Honestly, the next few days, the weather's going to be great. We're dry. We're a little bit breezy today. Highs are going to be hanging out in the 70s with cooler wake up temps. Friday morning and Saturday morning, but coming up on Sunday, likely monitoring some heavy rain and even the potential for some thunderstorms. Forecast highs today anywhere from 78 in Cyprus to 73 League City, 74 on Galveston Island, and maybe a bit warmer the further north that you go outside of Houston. But because of the clear skies that we'll be monitoring and the dry air, that is going to allow temperatures to drop by tomorrow morning. I do think in Houston proper, Topper will be in the low 50s. Now it's just how many cities outside of Houston will be dipping into the 40s. But regardless, temps are going to be down several degrees from what we're even waking up to just this morning. So something to keep in mind. We do have an increase in rain chances, though. Starting late Saturday, that 20%, it's at night, probably after you're sleeping, and then highest rain chance coming up on Sunday. So if you have weekend plans, I'd say get outside Saturday, keep up, have a plan B indoors coming up on Sunday. It's happening in not only our skies, but across the state through the start of the weekend. Then we're going to be monitoring some rain in West Texas to start your Saturday. And then a cold front is going to be sweeping across the state, bringing heightened rain chances right here in the Houston area. Now, our latest timing, this is our GFS forecast model showing sometime about midday on Sunday. Could that speed up just a bit and maybe it's a little bit closer to Sunday morning? You betcha. I've already seen the models kind of speed up timing. So it is... It is something that we're going to be watching closely. Right now, most of the viewing area is in a one out of four risk for flooding coming up on Sunday. Now, that doesn't mean that anywhere that it rains, we're going to see flooding. No, it just means that there's probably going to be a lot of rain in a short amount of time, which could lead to some isolated street flooding here and there. So it's something that we'll be watching closely. But you guys might want to look closely at this. 14-day outlook does show Thursday, November 26th, which is Thanksgiving, we could be seeing above average rain chances and warmer than average temperatures. So there you go. We're still two weeks out, so a lot can change, but it's something that we're tracking long term. Temperatures are going to be much cooler as we head into early next week.