Houston weather: Warm, pleasant Friday ahead; Air Quality Alert

All right, by now you've probably heard that our weather around here is going to be spectacular, okay, today for the weekend. But will the weather for Halloween be spooktacular? You got to say it. As a weather person, I'm required to say that at least once. Let's talk about it, okay? We're going to check out this computer model forecast of moisture levels in the atmosphere. So here's where there's the most available moisture, the least available moisture. And when we put this ahead in time, here's Sunday, everything looks great. Heading into the next week, start to see a little more green. That indicates probably some cloud cover is going to start to build back in. And then here comes a plume, unfortunately, just in time for around Halloween, which of course falls on a Saturday this year, a week from tomorrow. So this is the Friday outlook and you'll see these bright greens showing up, which indicates most likely a cloudy sky and scattered storms, which may linger through much of the day on Saturday. Just don't know yet if it is going to maybe start to move out just in time for trick-or-treating. You know, fingers crossed on that one. But for right now, yes, count on seeing an increase in moisture levels and increase in chances for rain coming up for Halloween and the Friday before as well. A great weekend ahead, though, for us, really. Today around 87, tomorrow also around 87 degrees. Sunday is looking nice and dry as well. Might have a few more clouds, but the humidity levels look nice and low. So everything is looking terrific heading into the weekend. just like today everything looks nice as well that latest temperature is 63 very light winds very dry air is in place as well but that sunshine is beaming on in so what happens is on a day like today you have very dry air and dry air tends to vary so it'll get like cool in the morning and then heat up quickly and it also has to do with the fact that we have light winds and no cloud cover so that allows for maximum heating it during the day and maximum cooling at night which is why we get these big temperature swings going from lows, you know, in the low 50s this morning back into the upper 80s this afternoon. That'll continue as we head into the weekend. Now, next week, as I pointed out on that map that showed the greens, we start to have increasing clouds building in. We'll start to bring in a better chance for showers for the mid to late part of this upcoming week, and then a better chance for rain coming up for Friday and possibly Halloween as well.