A Small Craft Advisory is in effect for coastal waters from High Island to Freeport, Texas, from Friday evening, October 3rd, to Saturday evening, October 4th, 2025. Mariners should expect seas of 4-6 feet with occasional seas to 6-8 feet, and east winds of 10-20 knots with gusts to 25 knots. Inexperienced mariners and those in smaller vessels should avoid navigating during this time.
A HIGH Risk of Rip Currents is in effect through at least Saturday night for the Houston/Galveston area. Numerous, strong, life-threatening rip currents are expected. Remember: Don't swim against the current. If you're caught, swim parallel to the shore, then angle back to the beach.
The unseasonably warm temperatures continue across the area today, though highs do look to be very slightly lower...at the expense of modestly higher humidity. Look for afternoon highs around 90° and lows in the 60s and 70s tonight. Isolated sea breeze storms are possible south of I-10.
Expect continued hot temperatures through the weekend. An increase in moisture will result in higher humidity levels, an increase in cloud cover, and low chances for showers and thunderstorms mainly south of I-10.
If it feels a bit like an extended summer, you'd be right - at least as far as temperatures go. Don't expect much of a change on that front - forecast highs through the weekend remain more in the vicinity of 90° rather than the average in the mid-80s. Looking out even further, the odds are heavily slanted in the favor of more above average temperatures as we begin to make our way into mid-October.
An extended period of warm weather and below normal rainfall has led to drought expansion across SE Texas with most of the area experiencing Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions with areas generally west of the Brazos Rive in Moderate Drought (D1). Continued drought expansion is expected over the next several weeks.
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