Houston weather: Storm Alert for Sunday

All right, Fox 26, your Gulf Coast weather authority time right now is 5:19. Let's get you guys a first look at your forecast here with meteorologist Amisha Shade in the weekend. Might be a little dicey for some of us. Yeah, it starts off great, Anthony, but ends up, yeah, kind of dicey, bumpy, buckle up. It's going to be up and down, but at least it starts nice. So whatever you need to do outside, try to get it out of the way Saturday because by Sunday we'll be under a Fox 26 storm alert and it's going to be from the morning hours through the evening. A few severe storms possible, bursts of heavy rain, and maybe even some street flooding. So it's not looking that great. So please be careful if you are going to be out and about for Sunday. It was another beauty out there today. Splendid, gorgeous sunshine. We had nice mild temps in the afternoon. Cool start in the morning. So really something for everyone. You can see some of those high clouds starting to build back in ahead of our next storm system. But overall, weather tonight stays very quiet. It's still comfortable out there. 75 degrees. We've still got fairly dry air in place. And there's not much to worry about with our weather tonight. You can see temps mainly in the 70s. For Austin, San Antonio, Houston, a few showers back towards west Texas near El Paso, but not a ton of rain yet. That is going to change. Our next cold front and area of low pressure will sweep in this weekend, and that flood threat already starts to go up for places like Wichita Falls, Abilene, San Angelo for tomorrow. And then by Sunday, that flood threat jumps right into the Houston area, really from the Houston area to the woodlands up north, all the way down to Galveston and back to West Texas. towards Bay City. So let's time it out for you, because it looks like it could be a big mess for much of the area for Sunday. Tonight, if you're going out for a concert, dinner, movie, no weather issues whatsoever. Tomorrow morning, even, if you're heading out for brunch with some friends, family in the morning should be dry. But by tomorrow evening, a few showers will start to pop up, mainly west of 45 over towards Sealy, Columbus. And then by Sunday morning, around 9 a.m., that rain really becomes more widespread. Going into Sunday afternoon, I think this is going to be the worst of it, really, from about 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. The European model showing just a big area of heavy rain, maybe a few strong and severe storms over us. So yeah, not looking great for any Sunday afternoon outdoor plans. Most of that pushes out by Sunday night with just some lingering showers. But I did go ahead and bump up that rain chance for Sunday to 80%. So it's a very low shot for rain. Late Saturday, 20%. Rain likely though on Sunday, 80% and then a 30% chance for a few showers as we go into early Monday morning, but that should quickly move out. Now, the other order of business, how much rain are we talking about? Yes, it looks wet. It looks stormy for Sunday, but the rain totals continue to go up. In fact, this model now showing really between Houston, Alvin, Galveston and Lake Jackson, anywhere from two to four inches of rain. And there's the bullseye at this point for maybe some of the heaviest rain, four inches showing up down around Galveston. And this is just from Saturday night through Sunday night. So of course, if that rain falls a little too quickly, that could lead to a lot of rain. to some flooding issues, so make sure you're watching out for any flooding, make sure you have a way to get alerts, keep checking back with us on Fox Local over the weekend, we'll keep you updated on what's happening. Saturday looks to be pretty nice, just a few showers late in the day, Sunday of course wet, stormy, high around 70, and then it's a... Temperature drop for Monday behind that front that pushes through Sunday evening from a high of 70 for Sunday to a high of 60 Monday. And some of you may not even get out of the 50s. So you might need the jackets all day long on Monday. We'll have a couple of dry days Tuesday and Wednesday and then a few showers will return late next week on Thursday and Friday.