In other words: Don’t put the flip-flops away quite yet.<\/p>\n
For now, Houston is looking at another stretch of classic September weather\u2014highs generally in the 90s, scattered afternoon showers and nights stuck in the 80s.<\/p>\n
Berger compared the city’s wait for a cold front to something painfully familiar.<\/p>\n
“We’re basically in what seems like an interminable doctor’s waiting room hoping to hear ‘cold front’ called out by a nurse.”And Houston may be sitting in that waiting room for a little longer.<\/p>\n
Berger said the first chance for a front comes in about 10 days, but stressed that it is “not a slam dunk.”<\/p>\n
“I’m a little less optimistic today,” Berger wrote Wednesday. “Yesterday I probably would have put our odds at about 40 percent of seeing a front. Today I’m at 30 percent, which to be fair is not zero.”<\/p>\n
So when will Houston cool down?<\/p>\n
The best chance currently appears to be late next week or during the weekend of Sept. 18-20.<\/p>\n
Berger said the front’s arrival is still “a 50-50 deal” and that even if it makes it to Houston, it probably won’t deliver the dramatic temperature drop many residents are hoping for.<\/p>\n
Still, he isn’t complaining.<\/p>\n
“But I don’t care,” Berger wrote Tuesday. “For the first time in months we can legitimately start to look for some fall-like weather, and I am here for it.”<\/p>\n
Until then, Houston will likely endure a little more September heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In other words: Don’t put the flip-flops away quite yet. For now, Houston is looking at another stretch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,30074,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-431601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chronweather","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431601","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=431601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}