Houston weather: Sunny Friday ahead of weekend storms

Good morning, everyone. We have a beautiful day to take the kids to the park after school or go on that walk with the dog. Whatever you can do to get outside and enjoy the low humidity and sunshine because it's not going to be lasting long. We're going to be monitoring an increase in clouds and breezes on Saturday and evening the chance for a few evening showers. Sunday, though, widespread heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms will be the big story. So our GFS forecast model does a great job at showing nada in our skies today. And for the first I do think there is going to be the chance for some scattered showers afternoon and mainly south of Houston Saturday evening, but it's going to be all this heavy rain. That's heading in thanks to an approaching area of low pressure and front. What happens before the front arrives is we're going to be seeing some winds pick up out of the Gulf. That means warm, moist air with the approach of that front, bringing the potential for some strong storms and even heavy rain. I mean, we haven't really talked about a widespread threat for severe weather in a while. That's why I have issued Fox 26 Storm Alert just for Sunday. So it's a one out of five risk low, but damaging wind gusts hail going to be the biggest possibilities. Along with the heavy rain. I mean, we're looking at a one out of four risk for widespread isolated street flooding. And really, it's going to be our friends through Houston, South, so Fort Bend County, Brazoria, Galveston, even Chambers County, with the potential for localized rainfall totals of two to four inches. Yeah, that would be in a short amount of time, i.e. street flooding, possible. So before we get any of that rain, we have highs again, upper 70s to low 80s. Another round of some cool wake-up temperatures tomorrow, I mean, we're talking wake-up temps 40s and low 50s. So yeah, I think that that's coffee on the patio or to go and you can get outside for a nice morning walk before we see those clouds increase for your Saturday. Once that front rolls through, coming up Sunday into Monday, we have another round of some cooler temperatures. I mean, we're talking highs in the 60s and wake-up temps in the 40s and 50s once again. I do quickly just want to let you know, we are still monitoring our long-range outlook. So less than two weeks now till Thanksgiving, and now exactly two weeks till Black Friday. Overall, I'm thinking we're going to be above average, but models are hinting that at least the week of Thanksgiving, we could be seeing a cross-country storm rolling through. So we got to wait till we get a. We'll get a little bit closer on exact timing, and it's something we'll continue to watch for you. But there we go. Next week, highs will be in the low and mid 60s.