Meteorologist Kim Castro's KHOU 11+ Houston forecast

Hello, Houston IKG 11. Meteorologist Kim Castro, a big pattern change for this week. Have you noticed out there? Lots of cloud cover and some decent downpours? Here's the overall big picture. The weather pattern is featuring a lot of coastal moisture. So right now, we even have a coastal low. You'll notice that broad area of rotation right over Houston and it's tapping in to quite a bit of moisture that's going to translate to some decent rain chances for our Monday already looking at our neighborhood weather network. How much rain did we pick up? Glen Cove Street? About 6/10 of an inch of rain. Rice Military Maxi Street, about half an inch and more than that, just a little bit further east, about 6/10 of an inch of rain in the heights area, anywhere between half an inch to maybe 4/10 of an inch of rain. Spring branch a little but more than that Pine Chase Drive 6/10 of an inch of rain. So all in all our Monday featured about half an inch to an inch of rain area wide with higher totals along the coastline. The bottom line is that we've got a rain chance pretty much every single day this week, like I mentioned, because the moisture streaming in from the gulf, most of the accumulation is going to be along the coastline, but we all get to reap the benefits of the cloud cover and the rain cool air at some point, which means it's not gonna be as hot though. It's certainly still gonna feel a little sticky out there. So the on and off showers for now fueled by that coastal low. But there's a lot of tropical moisture that's gonna send in a number of waves throughout the week. And with that tropical moisture in place, that's why we've got rain chances pretty much every single day, we'll put it at 50% for your Tuesday and your Wednesday hiking it up even more. So as we head into Thursday and Friday, we'll put that at 70%. Let me walk you through the first couple of days. So as we head into your Tuesday, we'll see more of a messy start to the day. So that's a snapshot at 630. We're seeing showers streaming up along the Gulf freeway into the loop into the beltway. Pretty much all of Harris County seeing a soggy wet start to your Tuesday. Remember when we have shower activity, even the slightest bit of drizzle, it slows down traffic. So with tropical downpours like this, give yourself extra time. So if you typically leave your house at around eight in the morning, I'd say maybe head out the door at 730. So you're not pressed for time and rushing on the roadway by the afternoon, I think some of that shower activity starts to fizzle out and it's gonna be really similar to how Wednesday shapes up. So showers the coastline for the start of the day. By the afternoon and evening though, showers start to taper Thursday again. 630 in the morning, more shower streaming and you get the point. It's a pretty repetitive pattern. So last week was really repetitive in terms of how hot it was triple digit stretch. And now this week, we just did a Texas turnaround a 180 instead of the heat, we're tracking more moisture, a wet powder. So throughout our start of the week, so until Thursday, I think most of the shower activity is really manageable. So maybe about an inch, an inch or two, some higher totals. Like we talked about closer to Galveston, Brazo, Matagorda counties. But then as those rain chances hike up to 70% look at what happens. We'll see widespread rain totals of two to maybe four inches isolated pockets, of course, picking up more than that. It's where those heavy bands kind of linger, those pockets of heavy red downpours that could see some higher totals. But all in all we'll all get in on the wet weather and the drop in temperatures check this out over the next seven days. These are your highs. Most of the days are gonna be below average for this time of year with the added cloud cover and the rain cooled air. I think we top off somewhere around the upper eighties to maybe grazing 90 degrees Wednesday I have is the lone day that could be above average. And the reason for that is I don't think we'll see enough shower activity and I think we'll see some breaks in the cloud cover, which would allow those temperatures to get up into the mid nineties. But still, it's pretty good compared to the triple digit stretch we had last week. Let's talk about the tropics. Still not looking at anything yet. We're monitoring quite a bit of Saharan dust coming off the west coast of Africa and notice even the MD R, the main development region, not all that impressive. In fact, some of that dust even sinking south and getting entrained, trapped in the storms. So that wouldn't allow for them to, uh, garner any strength. Also, you'll notice they're pretty low. So these storms are forming south of 10 degrees latitude, kind of closer to the equator. And why that's significant is at the equator, there's no Corolla force. So that's the spin in the atmosphere that allows these storms to become organized and have rotation. So if they're sagging closer to that non rotation area, well, we wouldn't see any storms develop. So, so that's what we're looking at into the start of September, of course, is always monitor the forecast at least once a day. Now, while the Atlantic is not seeing any activity. Boy, oh boy, the Pacific has really revved up three systems in the Pacific Central Pacific Home, which was a hurricane. Now, a tropical storm, we're monitoring Gilma which is a category two hurricane as of the lunchtime on Monday and then Hector another tropical storm. So three different systems and when one side is active, the other is quiet. So because the Pacific is so active again, we're not tracking any storms over the next seven days. Local 70 forecast though shows quite a bit of shower activity because of our moisture. That's just in the backyard temperature wise. Like I mentioned, most days are gonna be in the upper eighties, maybe 90 degrees. So that's below average. And then those rain chances are gonna be pretty high at least 50% for most days.