HOUSTON – If you’re telling yourself it’s too early in the morning for severe weather, you’re absolutely right -- but your KPRC 2 Weather Team is all over it.
We are tracking showers and storms across SE Texas. Check out our current radar below.
There will be enough energy to spark strong to severe thunderstorms across SE Texas in the early morning hours.
The main impacts will be gusty winds and heavy downpours as the front moves through. Here is the latest timing from our short-range models:
5 am: The line of storms makes it’s way into the Houston area
8am: Still tracking scattered showers throughout the area - especially near the coast.
The later that you go out to vote (and please don’t sit this one out!), the less chance for heavy rain, we’ll see things taper off in the afternoon.
Tropical Outlook:
While it’s late in the tropical season, we are tracking Tropical Storm Rafael with sustained winds of 45 mph. Rafael is less than 125 hundred miles away from Jamaica. Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to intensify into a hurricane on Tuesday.
While it’s late in the tropical season, we’re officially still in it until the end of November! While it is concerning for all of us to see a tropical storm coming into the Gulf at any time of the year, this late in the season, it will likely encounter some rough conditions as it gets closer to the coastline. Early forecasts from the National Hurricane Center are favoring a landfall possibly near New Orleans or that the storm will continue to weaken and bring waves of rain closer to Houston by late next weekend.
The next area of development is north of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. This wave has a 20% chance of developing over the next seven days.
10-day Forecast:
The early week cold front will help tame temperatures Tuesday keeping highs in the 70s. Late week rain chances are far from a wash out.
