Houston weather: Pleasant Wednesday on the way

Fox 26, your Gulf Coast Weather Authority 934 here. This is our second day with some just kind of cloudy skies. Lots of rain in the area. Are we going to see any relief here over the next couple of days, Ramesha? We will. I think by tomorrow afternoon it's going to be a little brighter, drier. But tonight, early tomorrow morning. kind of messy, wet at times, stormy, and I want to show you our Fox radar, and before we get to that, we've got a driving shot here. You can see on Southwest Freeway, the rain is coming down. You see the windshield wipers working there. Not super heavy rain, but it's enough to make those roads wet, slick, and of course, when you get on the side streets, the areas that are kind of low-lying could start to flood a little bit, so just be careful out there if you have to be out at this time of the night. Hey, maybe you're already at home getting ready for bed, getting things set up for your work day, your school day tomorrow, and you don't have to worry about it. But if you're going out early tomorrow before 8 a.m., this could be your scenario. So please be careful. All right, let's head to our Fox radar and you'll see that the heavy downpours are starting to push in closer to places like Mission Bend, Sugar Land. And if you look off to the west and southwest, even in H-Town, you can see some of those lightning strikes as the storms get closer. Mission Bend, Sugar Land, Rosenberg, you're starting to get in on some heavier downpours with a few lightning strikes and over towards League City and Dickinson. There's some light rain there in Houston. It's just a few sprinkles, light rain showers, nothing to be too concerned about. Closer to the coast in between Texas City and Galveston, south of Santa Fe near Highway 6 and Alvin. There's more shower action there and that extends back towards Lake Jackson, West Columbia. Some of the heaviest rain and storm activity right now, though, stretching from places like East Bernard to To Wharton, El Campo, Ganado, and just north of Edna. So very heavy rain here and about 15, 16 lightning strikes. And there could be some small hail. But here's the good thing. There's no alerts out right now. No flood watches or warnings. No severe storm watches or warnings. So I think most of this will stay below severe levels. Expect waves of rain, though, overnight. Some heavy. Small hail possible. But it's not going to be a huge, severe threat overnight. Going into Veterans Day, we'll start off. With the wet conditions early before 9 a.m. especially, and then we kind of dry things out for the rest of the day. Pleasant, drier, and then for Thursday morning, we're looking at another cold front rolling in. That one should come through mainly dry, but you will notice the dip in the temperatures by Thursday night and Friday morning. Here's a live view of Houston right around the Galleria area 610 and you can see that it's kind of misty. The roads are a little wet. Traffic seems to be flowing just fine and I've been monitoring the shot and there you go. I was just about to say I've been seeing occasional lightning strikes with those storms rolling in from the southwest. So yes the sky is kind of lighting up out there but like I said nothing severe but some heavier rain will likely start to push over Houston over the next hour or so. Severe threat is a very low one. It's a one out out of five possible risks from From Houston to Galveston down to Bay City. And it's mainly a 5% risk for some isolated severe hail that could be maybe up to quarter size. So that's going to be the main threat along with a little bit of lightning and heavy rain. Our high resolution model shows downpours rolling through overnight. 4 a.m. may be hitting you in the woodlands and Atascosita. Houston, you're going to get hit off and on throughout the night. By mid to late morning tomorrow, though, most of that rain is gone. And I think we will get to enjoy a drier Veterans Day afternoon. Afternoon and evening tomorrow night. Next cold front drops in. It's not really going to bring much in the way of rainfall, but it is going to bring in some cooler temperatures, especially for Friday morning and Saturday morning. Some of you dipping to the 40s. Of course, we're close to the middle of the week and you're already thinking about weekend plans. So I wanted to show you the European future cast notice for Sunday. It is bringing in a lot of rain for Sunday evening and Sunday night. We could pick up maybe a quick one, one and a half, two inches of rain. So that could cause some flooding issues. So think about that as you're starting to make your weekend plans. However, tonight we've already got our big round of rain to worry about. It is a 70% rain chance. Main risk will be a little bit of hail, some lightning, and maybe some 30, 40-mile-per-hour gusts along with heavy rain. That heavy rain clears out. During the mid to late morning and then we've got more sunshine expected, pleasant temps and drier weather for the rest of your Veterans Day. So if you're going out to any events, things look pretty good for the late morning and afternoon. Temps in the middle 70s. Thursday and Friday look close to perfect. Cool in the morning, mild in the afternoon, close to 80. And then of course this weekend we're worried about the rain showers rolling in Saturday night and overtaking us on Sunday. Sunday looks like it could be pretty soggy. So keep that in mind as you make those weekend. Plans.