Houston weather: Sunday afternoon update on rain conditions

Well, a good Sunday afternoon to you. I'm Fox 26 meteorologist John Dawson. It is 3 p.m. and here on Fox Local, I want to make sure that you know kind of how this afternoon of weather has progressed. I hope you knew the rain was coming today because we certainly started our weekend a much different case than how we are ending our weekend. Yesterday was a pretty nice day overall, a little breezy, but today has been a washout of a day and some of us are seeing some Some stronger storms than others and we'll check. We'll check in with the radar right now just to kind of note that these stronger storms that we're seeing are right on schedule and they've been right below severe, so far as severe weather potential, which is good. We had one severe thunderstorm warning down from Matagorda County earlier and you see a little bit of a box that's popping up down there in Brazoria County and I'll go ahead and just kind of zoom in to that for just a little bit to show you that this is the strongest set of storms that we have moving across the Fox 26 area right now. And this is just sort of a severe weather or a strong weather statement. It's not necessarily a severe thunderstorm warning or anything like that. But this is the strongest of the storms. We could have 40 mile an hour wind gusts associated within that particular area near Lake Jackson and Angleton. And then also there's the possibility of some small hail that's mixed in. And you see the lightning counter there. That sometimes gives you a very general idea of what's going on within a storm. And those numbers are going to The numbers are relatively low, so certainly some gusty winds or some hail, but it's not a high lightning count. It doesn't look like it's going to continue to ramp up. too much as it continues to see those numbers somewhat a little, you know, kind of manageable and overall kind of on the way down. I do want to point out, though, there are this is this shaded here, this brown shading, this tan that for these coastal counties, that's a wind advisory that's in effect. And that's going to continue to move all the way until tomorrow. Even once this front pushes all the way through, we'll continue to see some windy conditions behind that. Let's just sort of zip up here to the downtown Houston area to get a little bit better. The stronger of the storms are just south of the beltway that you can see now moving in towards Pearland and Alvin. Manvel, you're next in line as well. But moving into the downtown Houston area, we certainly see some. I know we've got a Transstar camera as well as some of our other tower cams that we have available to kind of bring those up. We'll get that on the screen for you full. This is our Transstar camera, Houston Transstar camera. This is going to be I-10 at Campbell. That's over on the west side. And so while this certainly seems to be a mess and very rainy on the roadways, I do actually think that this is starting to sort of thin out just a little bit. Even 20 minutes ago, this camera was even heavier with rain than what we're seeing right now at the moment. This is a cold front that's moving through. And so there's a little bit of a line of storms that are associated with that boundary. But then even behind that, we will be expecting a little bit more rain to be happening as well. So we'll again sort of get back to our radar here just a minute and kind of tour around somewhat. I do want to check on some Some of these rainfall accumulations that we've seen so far. Let me back out and show you that out further to the west. I talked about this line of storms. There's kind of a couple lines here. We go further back out to the west on I-10 and you see this sort of secondary line. This is going to be sort of the more wrapping it up stage when we get to this particular line. Now making its way on into Sealy. That's out as well. And to Schulenburg, kind of in that area out to the west. Let's not forget the folks up to the north. If you're up in Polk, Lake County, San Jacinto County, Walker County, all around Lake Livingston and Lake Conroe, you've had a steady rain today. You'll have a mix of a little bit of red of those heavier downpours, but notice that lightning strike counter, zero, and relatively there's been few lightning strikes overall. So let me switch to accumulation. Let's see what we've done here in the last 24 hours as far as the rain is concerned. I'm going to stop our laps as well so we kind of keep it a little bit more stable. And overall, these numbers are pretty low except Right on the coast, you'll see down by Lake Jackson and just right on the coast itself is where you see the yellows and the reds. Those are going to be the higher numbers. That green shading, I'll just click here and show you, that green shading is usually an inch to an inch and a half. You start getting into some of these areas of red and yellow, you're more into that two to even five inches of rain. So that's kind of what we've seen again. Primarily right on the coast and that's pretty much what our forecast was calling for as far as the numbers are concerned that those heaviest rainfall totals would be kept along down toward the coast. So let me just kind of a quick reminder again that we're calling today a Fox 26 storm alert day. As the sun begins to set, we can kind of lose the alert part of that because I think the threat for street flooding are those gusty winds will diminish. But I do still think We'll still look for some possibilities even for tomorrow morning to have a little bit of rain left. Notice that it's more of a trough than actually a cold front itself, but some cooler air comes behind it. We've got this upper level low that's tied into that, and some of that moisture is going to wrap around to the backside of that. And that's why we're going to continue to keep a little bit of rain chances for a while. This kind of shows you that system as it's rolling on through again here, and we'll see that special weather. statement is what that box is down to the south lightning count again relatively low and we'll continue to see the stormiest of the weather. Confined to the coast, although you're certainly getting a good downpour if you're going across the downtown Houston area right now. This is our camera over in the Galleria area and you could see that's a pretty mess, much of a mess there as far as the rain falling, but it's still drivable. Just make sure you give a little extra time with where you're going. East northeast winds around 19 miles an hour, so certainly going to be breezy and going to be very breezy behind this weak front that's moving through and some cooler temperatures. I think we'll have a couple mornings for most of us. In the upper 40s, I mean, it's barely 40, so maybe it'd be more fair to call around 50 degrees. For those overnight lows are on Monday morning and Tuesday morning, but still that's some cooler air. And as I mentioned, we certainly could see an isolated shower lingering around into Monday morning. But I think once we get into the really let's call it lunchtime. I was going to say afternoon, but lunchtime and then into the afternoon for sure. Skies start to clear. It stays breezy, stays cool. We'll have to work to see if we can make it back up to 60 degrees and then we'll continue to move through the rest of the week with a couple. Great days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Great meaning, I guess, rain free and some sunshine and some cooler temperatures. And then it does look like at this point, we've got a little bit more rain chances coming back towards us again at the end of the weekend leading into next weekend. So as we continue to move along here, I'll get in here, jump on the Fox local as necessary if I need to cut in for anything. But everything's pretty manageable so far. We're moving those stronger storms through downtown Houston right now and the rest of the metro area. The strongest of the storms are down along the coast, still just below the severe weather criteria. We'll continue to see this system move on through isolated chances for some of that street flooding. So if you're moving around, be safe and we'll keep you updated. And otherwise, we'll see you back here at 5 p.m. for our newscast and then again tonight at 9.