Houston’s 100-Degree Heat Streak Could Be Over as Storms Set Their Sights on Thursday

After a 6th straight day of 100+ degree heat, we’ll slowly start to see some changes in our forecast. However, Wednesday will still be very hot. Combined with Houston’s humidity, afternoon heat index values will climb to between 108° and 112°. The current Heat Advisory runs through Wednesday evening.

Heat advisory extended through WednesdayLate Week finally some relief (sort of):

Late in the week, the strong ridge of high pressure moves west, opening the door for more Gulf moisture and a weak disturbance to increase rain chances starting Thursday.

However, temperatures will remain in the upper 90s. Not a huge rain chance but we’ll take anything to provide some heat relief.

Thursday evening we’re in for a celestial treat; There is a partial lunar eclipse expected around 11pm so hope for a thinning cloud cover if we do see some afternoon storms.

Here’s when Houston can catch the the lunar eclipse on August 27High pressure slides west

Tracking the tropics:

Monitoring one areas of tropical concern in the Atlantic basin.

The area is a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa. It now has a 70% chance of development. Ironically, the next name on the Atlantic list is … Dolly.

This is one of the hottest stretches that we’ve seen so far this 2026 summer. With a few more days of 100-degree heat likely, this will be the longest stretch of 100 consecutive days since 2023.

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