Houston weather: Cool Tuesday, some rain expected

Welcome back. It is 6:16 and here's the outlook for the day today. The main headline is. Cloudy, cool Tuesday. Now, it's not going to be cold, but it is feeling kind of clammy. It's damp is what it is out there this morning. The temperature is right around the upper 50s to near 60, and it's a bit on the dreary side. Now, we will have a couple peaks of sun this morning, but I think that the best chance for seeing a little bit more sun today will be well to the north of Houston with some scattered showers possible throughout the day in the greater Houston area and across places like Fort Bend, Brazoria and Galveston County. High temperature yesterday. We were only about 60 degrees. 65 or 66 and that wasn't even in the afternoon. That was actually reached early in the day and most of the day we hung around just those low 60s with the rain coming down. Right now we do have lots of spots down in the 50s, which is not all unusual for this time of the year. But since we're starting out at 56 in Conroe and 59 in Katy and Sugar Land and 63 even for Galveston, we're starting out on the cool side here and we'll have mainly a cloudy sky today. It's going to take a lot to warm us up. So maybe we get up to 70. I think that's probably about it for high temperatures today. Let me walk you through the Futurecast temperatures here. This is our HRRR computer model. Notice how it is showing 71 up there at noontime in Huntsville. Probably some sun coming through for you guys. Less sun around Pearland and Houston and the woodlands, where temperatures are only about 66 or 67. We might briefly hit 70, but then some showers come in and it'll cool us right back down. So I do think today is going to feel very... fall-like out there. Not heavy jacket kind of weather, but definitely on the cool side. We don't have that much rain falling right now. We have showers off toward the north of Houston. We also have some showers that are getting ready to move through the Wharton area, but that's about it. I think as the morning wears on, though, we'll see more rain approach Houston. So what do you need to know for your morning commute? Well, the streets are slick, even though it isn't raining. A 50% rain chance today. High temperature, maybe 70, which means most of the day we're going to spend in the 60s.