Houston residents should keep their raincoats handy as the city braces for a week interspersed with showers and potential flooding, according to recent weather forecasts. Today, the National Weather Service predicts a 20 percent chance of showers after 5 pm with temperatures rising to a high near 63; tonight, the odds increase to 60 percent, bringing showers and possible thunderstorms after 3 am with patchy fog to follow.
As for Sunday, Houston is set for a tumultuous weather day, with a high risk of showers and thunderstorms, alongside frequent lightning strikes and possible intense wind gusts as noted by Click2Houston; streets may quickly flood if rain accumulates up to the expected 3 inches, especially if it pours down in a short timeframe, leading to street flooding. The following days will see milder temperatures, mostly hovering in the 60s and touching 70 mid-week, notwithstanding the multiple rain chances forecasted from Sunday to the end of the week, with possible total rainfall reaching up to 5 inches.
Looking ahead, Monday holds a 20 percent chance of showers before noon, paired with a cloudy high near 62, while Tuesday shows similar possibilities for rain, according to the National Weather Service. Midweek forecasts call for a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, and these unsettled patterns seem to persist with Thursday presenting a 70 percent chance of showers.
The persistent unsettled weather is supposed to taper off by the end of the week as the stalled front that’s been causing the daily rainfall is expected to move out, paving the way for a drier start to February, this shift in the weather pattern promises a respite from rainfall and a return to dry conditions are foreseen with Click2Houston illustrating the 10-day outlook includes no freezing temperatures even a couple of days expected to climb into the lower 70s before wet weather abates making way for a dry February kickoff.
