First, the good news is that the threat for tornadoes and severe storms has decreased a little for Galveston County. Generally, the latest prognostic outlook from the Storm Prediction Center and the Houston-Galveston National Weather Service has lowered the risk category for most of Galvesto…

Before I get into the main topic, I would like to briefly re-visit last year’s weather. Temperature-wise, 2019 was slightly warmer than average overall for the County. Galveston finished the year without a freeze (with 35° as the lowest) with the lowest in League City a fairly modest 31°. Ga…

Dense fog blanketed much of the Texas Gulf coast this morning as mild easterly winds flowed across cooler shelf waters. This has prompted a dense fog advisory for the Galveston area.

The first two weeks of December were characterized by windy, wet cold fronts that brought a hint of winter to the County. In both cases, however, the weekend weather rebounded with plenty of sunshine and near ideal, seasonably cool conditions.

Tuesday was a wet, windy, chilly day that perhaps only my border collie could love. With temperatures dropping into the 40’s on the mainland and the 50’s on the Island during the day, persistent showers and winds gusting to 45-mph at Scholes Field, the conditions could best be described as dreary.

Sunny cool weather prevailed this weekend and should linger for another couple of days before clouds and a chance of rain appear ahead of another modest cold front that should moves through the area by Friday. Rainfall amounts with this next frontal passage are again expected to be fairly mi…

A cold front currently moving across east-central Texas should push off the coast by this evening, leading to cool, sunny conditions on Saturday and Sunday.

The strongest cold front yet this season should reach the coast by sometime this evening, prompting a Wind Advisory for Galveston County as well as Low Water Advisories for the Bay and Gale Warnings for the immediate coast and offshore waters, for winds gusting to 45-mph or high behind the front.

A cold front currently moving southward across Texas will bring showers and thunderstorms to our area later today and tonight along with markedly cooler temperatures. Rainfall could average 2 inches or more over much of the County with precipitation lingering near the coast much of tomorrow.…

Milder temperatures have returned to the County as temperatures climb back into the 70’s, along with some clouds and a few light showers. This mild spell is likely to continue until late Thursday or early Friday when a fairly robust push of colder air moves across the region. Storms ahead an…

Moist air flowing back into the area will bring increasing clouds, milder temperatures and a slight chance of rain through tomorrow as a mostly stationary cold front over North and West Texas drifts south before stalling. Southwest winds aloft related to a low pressure trough digging southwe…

Although the two major global models (the American “GFS” and the European “ECMWF”) have come into somewhat closer alignment, much uncertainty remains about the details for the weather from late tomorrow night into Saturday evening. This is especially true with respect to amounts and timing o…

As of 11:00 a.m. CDT, the National Hurricane Center is issuing updates on Potential Tropical Cyclone #16, expected to form out of a 1007 MB low pressure area currently merging with the cold front in the Gulf of Mexico about 140 miles east of Tampico, Mexico. The system could be upgraded to a…

Warm weather has returned to Southeast Texas along with southerly winds and increasing humidity levels. This is in the wake of widespread rains over the County yesterday that ranged from 1 ½ inches to 3 inches on the Island to generally less than an inch over most inland areas. The rain was …

Our recent cold wave brought long-awaited relief from our extended summer heat. The 70° low Thursday morning in Galveston was the coolest temperature on the Island since June 17, while low temperatures across mainland areas of the County ranged from the low to mid-60’s.

September 2019 went into the record books as the hottest month ever observed in Galveston, where the 86.1° monthly average topped the previous all-time mark set in 2005. Three of the last four Septembers have made the top ten hottest September list (with records going back to 1871).

Based upon forecasts for the next five days, this month is a lock to go into the record books as the warmest September ever observed in Galveston County. With a monthly average of 86.1° (3.8° above normal) this handily eclipses the previous September monthly record of 84° set in 2005. Three …

As of 1 pm, CDT, the National Hurricane Center upgraded the depression near the Texas coast to Tropical Storm Imelda. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the Galveston area as the system tracks slowly north .

The upper-level low and surface trough in the Gulf of Mexico continues to drift slowly west towards the Texas coast, accompanied by a large pool of moisture. This situation is increasingly viewed by the National Weather Service and Weather Prediction Center as likely to produce heavy to exce…