Cold front to roll into Houston area this week with storms. Here’s when.

After a weekend of rain and warmer temperatures, Houston will be feeling a little chillier pretty soon. A cold front is likely to push into Southeast Texas on Tuesday, bringing with it showers and falling temps.

The beginning of the front’s passage will probably occur late Monday in parts of Southeast Texas, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters in the Houston-Galveston office say an upper-level trough will come across the Southern Plains, with the cold front heading from the Texas Panhandle to Central Texas, making a beeline for the Houston area.

“Ridging shifts east as the trough makes its way across Texas and we can begin to see some showers and isolated thunderstorms develop over the Brazos Valley and Piney Woods region Monday night, especially if we begin to have weak vort maxes moving over that region during the nighttime period,” wrote the NWS in its forecaster’s discussion on Sunday…

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