The first weekend of October is shaping up to be a wet one, but Space City Weather meteorologist Eric Berger says he doesn’t anticipate severe weather.
Although it might prompt some to postpone family picture day at the pumpkin patch, the good news is that a rainy weekend could bring a welcome “modest cool front” early next week.
“It will be a soggy weekend, yes,” Berger wrote on his Space City Weather blog. “But at the same time it’s not going to rain everywhere, all the time. There will definitely be breaks in the showers, so if you’re planning to attend a festival, or a college football game, or something else, do not abandon all hope.”
Texas is getting the remnants of Hurricane Polo, which brought heavy rains to the Hill Country and Dallas-Fort Worth areas this week, causing more than 150 flights to be canceled at DFW Airport on Thursday.
Houston’s best rain chances are Friday evening through Sunday morning, although scattered showers already hit the area earlier this week and more are anticipated Thursday night.
“All in all, through Sunday, most of the Houston region should pick up 1 to 4 inches of rain. We are not planning to issue a flood stage warning on our flood scale at this time, but we will continue to monitor things closely,” Berger said, noting that the storm brings the region’s best rain chances in weeks.
“What concerns me most is the potential for these showers, tropical in nature, to produce briefly heavy rainfall,” he said. “Aside from possibly the immediate coast, we don’t expect too much of that behavior over the Houston region. Temperatures will gradually push downward, with highs in the upper 80s on Friday dropping to the mid-80s on Sunday, and overnight lows going from the upper 70s to the lower 70s.”
As of Thursday morning, no Friday night high school football games were canceled due to weather, but the October 2 Bellaire vs. Lamar game was forfeited due to confirmed staph infection cases on the Bellaire team.
