A very active weather pattern is setting up over the next couple of days across Southeast Texas. A weak summertime cold front is expected to slowly push into Southeast Texas Sunday, and it will interact with deep Gulf moisture to produce widely scattered showers and thunderstorms.
The front won’t necessarily bring “cold” weather to the region: Temperatures are only expected to drop by 5 degrees from where we were Saturday. The bigger impact from the front will be the increased thunderstorm and flood threat moving into Southeast Texas. Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect over the next 48 hours.
Sunday’s forecast
Morning (4 to 11 a.m.) The Houston area will start Sunday morning with warm, humid conditions. Morning lows will hover near the 80-degree mark under mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures will rise into the mid- to upper 80s by the late morning.
A few scattered showers and storms are possible through the morning, but rain chances will be relatively low – around 30% – during this time. Even so, the storms that do form could produce intense downpours and isolated flash flooding…