That active weather pattern is expected to continue over the next few days, resulting in a rising threat of flash flooding through the first half of the week. The wet weather, though, will keep the summer heat at bay, as temperatures are likely to be below-average through the first half of the week. Here\u2019s what you can expect.<\/p>\n
A warm and muggy start is expected in Houston on Sunday, with temperatures sitting near 80 degrees from 5 to 8 a.m. A few showers and thunderstorms are also possible, but activity will be isolated, with only a 20% to 30% chance of rainfall during the morning hours.<\/p>\n
Temperatures will rise steadily through the middle of the day, likely reaching the upper 80s by 10 a.m. before afternoon highs top out at around 92 degrees<\/a>. Humidity levels will stay elevated, resulting in “feels like\u201d temperatures up to 102 degrees.<\/p>\n Daytime heating will result in additional storm development by the early afternoon, with rain chances rising to around 50% in the Houston metro area. The best chance of rain on Sunday will occur between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.<\/p>\n A few slow-moving tropical downpours could bring isolated flooding, prompting the National Weather Service to place southeast Texas under a level 1 of 4 risk of excessive rainfall on Sunday<\/a>. However, due to the scattered nature of Sunday\u2019s storms, rainfall totals are expected to stay on the lower side for much of the area.<\/p>\n By Monday, storm chances will rise higher as high atmospheric pressure shifts farther away from Southeast Texas. Houston will have about a 50% chance of showers and storms during the morning hours, with chances rising to around 80% by the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n The risk of flooding will increase significantly on Monday, with the weather service placing much of Southeast Texas being under a Level 2 of 4 risk of excessive rainfall. Additional rounds of off-and-on rainfall may stay possible into the overnight hours and through Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n The active weather will result in cooler temperatures on Tuesday, with highs expected to top out in the mid- to upper 80s, about 5 to 7 degrees below average for mid-July. However, low temperatures will generally be unaffected, only falling into the upper 70s during the morning.<\/p>\n How much rain? Through Wednesday, Houston is projected to see between 1 and 2 inches of rain, according to the National Blend of Models. However, isolated higher totals of up to 4 inches may be possible in some spots. Be sure to stay with houstonchronicle.com\/weather<\/a> as the forecast details become more clear.<\/p>\n During the second half of the week, a transition to some drier and warmer weather is anticipated as high pressure strengthens across the area. A few scattered showers and storms will stay possible, but overall chances will dip to around 20% Wednesday through Friday as temperatures rise back to the mid-90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That active weather pattern is expected to continue over the next few days, resulting in a rising threat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-370138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}