Tonight’s Forecast:

HOUSTON – Tonight temperatures will cool through the 70s and into the lower-60s. Patchy dense fog is possible (especially in our rural counties) in the morning. By 9AM the fog will mix out.

Thursday’s Forecast:

Thursday will start foggy, but by the afternoon we should be back to partly sunny to mostly sunny skies. High pressure is still dominating our weather pattern this week, meaning that we’ll see upper-80s for our highs all week.

Air Quality Concerns:

With all of the sunshine, warm temperatures and light winds in the forecast we can expect lower air quality this week. Folks who suffer from respiratory issues like asthma may want to consider exercising indoors. You can track air quality here in real time here:

Bone Dry:

For the first time in a year, Houston, and most of southeast Texas are back in a drought. It’s a moderate drought and conditions will get worse through the next two weeks with not much rain in the forecast.

We’re locked into a pretty dry pattern this week, so we don’t expect to break into the drought anytime soon For more on our drought and our upcoming winter click here. Our last measurable rainfall was on September 25th.

Tracking the Tropics:

There is no tropical development expected in the next seven days. Hurricane season runs through November 30th, but in recorded history SE Texas has never had a storm hit past October 15th. The reason is our cold fronts block storms from moving north. Fronts steer them east.

10-day Forecast:

There are several days we get near 90° this week with highs in the upper-80s and mostly sunny skies. Right now it looks like we could see rainfall by the middle of next week, but it’s still very far out.