Houston Weather for Monday Evening: 59.4 Degrees and Overcast, Rain Chance Up to 76 Percent — and Tuesday's Heavy Rain Is Off the Board
Houston's Monday is ending cooler and wetter than it began: 59.4 degrees under a solid overcast at 5 p.m., with Monday's rain chance now at 76 percent. The bigger change is Tuesday's — the heavy rain that sat on the forecast all day has been replaced by light drizzle.
Houston's Monday is closing the way it threatened to all afternoon — grey, cool and increasingly wet. The station's weather feed read 59.4 degrees and overcast (code 3) at the evening check, feeling like 60.2, on the way to a Monday low of 57.7 after a high of 64.4. Monday's rain chance, which climbed through the day, now stands at 76 percent with rain (code 61) the standing call for the rest of the day — the wettest reading of Monday's entire forecast run.
Tuesday is where the board genuinely changed. The heavy rain that earlier Monday forecasts carried for Tuesday is gone: Tuesday now reads light drizzle (code 51) with a 31 percent precipitation chance, a high of 69.5 and a low of 58.9. Anyone who planned Tuesday around a washout is planning around a forecast that no longer exists — it is a grey, damp day on the current board, not a deluge.
Behind it, the week warms fast. Wednesday brings rain chances of 26 percent under a high of 77.2, and then the rain leaves the board: Thursday is overcast and dry at 78.3 with a 1 percent chance, Friday is dry at 78.7 with no rain chance at all, and Saturday holds at 77.5 with 6 percent. The next rain signal of any size is Sunday, at 23 percent under a high of 72.7 — a full week after Monday's wet close.
The practical read for tonight: the commute home and any Monday-night plans outdoors — including the Rockets crowd heading to Toyota Center — should expect the day's highest rain odds, cooling temperatures in the upper 50s, and wet roads. After tonight, the week belongs to the warmup.
