NWS Forecast Office Houston/Galveston, TX

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Last Map Update: Wed, Oct. 16, 2019 at 5:26:15 pm CDT


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Rain chances will be slowly shifting to the south and ending this morning as the cold front moves offshore. A cooler and slightly drier air mass will be moving into the region today with some clearing possible over the north. However, clouds could stick around over much of SE TX through tonight.

Within the NWS Houston/Galveston forecast area, the U.S. Drought Monitor has expanded or escalated the drought conditions from severe to extreme (D2 to D3) for portions of Washington, Burleson, Brazos, Madison, and Grimes counties and from moderate to severe (D1 to D2) in portions of Montgomery and Houston counties. Moderate Drought conditions (D1) continue through portions of Colorado, Wharton, Austin, Waller, Harris, San Jacinto, Trinity counties. Unfortunately there have been no further drought improvements across the rest of the region. The impacts below are still valid and additional impacts will be updated as needed.

Current Weather Observations...

Location	Time (CDT)	Weather	Vsby. (SM)	Temp. (ºF)	Dewpt. (ºF)	Hum. (%)	Wind (mph)	Wind Chill / Heat Index (ºF)	Pres. (in)
Caldwell	17:15	Clear	10	66	45	45	N 8	-	30.07
College Station	16:53	Partly Cloudy	10	69	48	46	N 13	-	30.07
Huntsville	16:53	Clear	10	69	52	54	N 6	-	30.06
Brenham	17:15	Overcast	10	69	52	55	N 9G16	-	30.05
Conroe	17:04	Overcast	10	66	57	72	NNE 5	-	30.04
Cleveland	16:55	Overcast	10	66	61	85	NNE 3	-	30.05
Hooks Airport	16:53	Overcast	10	66	55	67	N 13	-	30.03
Intercontinental Airport	16:53	Overcast	7	68	60	75	N 15G23	-	30.01
Houston Hobby Airport	17:17	Overcast	10	67	62	84	N 10	-	30.00
Sugar Land	16:53	Overcast	10	66	61	83	N 12	-	30.02
Wharton	17:15	Overcast	10	65	55	68	N 13	-	30.01
Pearland	16:53	Overcast	10	67	62	84	N 16G23	-	30.01
Ellington Field	15:50	Mist	2	66	62	88	NNW 12	-	30.01
Angleton/Lake Jackson	17:14	Light Rain \ Mist	3	65	63	93	N 14	-	29.99
Galveston	16:52	Mist	5	68	67	96	N 21G29	-	29.99
Bay City	17:15	Overcast	10	67	64	90	N 15G20	-	29.99
Palacios	16:53	Overcast	10	66	59	78	N 14G23	-	29.99

Local Weather History For October 16th...

2006 was one of the wettest Octobers on record and another heavy rain event occurred on this date. Angleton received
8.12 inches of rain in three hours. Over 115 homes were flooded in Brazoria county. Parts of southern Harris county also
received heavy rain with Houston Hobby reporting 6.96 inches of rain. Four deaths were attributed to the flooding. High
winds also uprooted trees in Hitchcock and damaged several mobile homes.