Houston Weather for Monday, Midday Update: Light Drizzle at 65.4 Degrees - and Tuesday's Rain Chance Jumps to 25 Percent

Midday has taken the edge off Monday without clearing it. At the midday read of the station's own weather feed, Houston stands at 65.4 degrees - it feels like 66.5 - under a light drizzle, code 51. That is up from 61.8 at the mid-morning read, and the day has settled into the shape the morning files promised, at the gentler end of it: today's high holds at 67.8, the day's code reads 53, and the precipitation figure holds at 45 percent, the same number the mid-morning file carried. Tonight's low is 57.7 - the warmer night that replaced the cold one the early files first promised.

Tuesday is where the feed moved. The day keeps the week's most aggressive weather code, heavy rain (65), and its precipitation figure has now jumped from 13 percent to 25 percent between the mid-morning and midday reads - still not a promise of a washout, but a code firming up instead of fading, and the desk flags it plainly because this morning it read as a long shot. Tuesday's high is 69.9 and its low eased a tenth, to 59.8. If the figure keeps climbing through the afternoon reads, Tuesday becomes the week's weather story; the evening file will say what the feed says then.

Beyond Tuesday the week is unchanged and mostly kind. Wednesday reads light drizzle at 76.1 with a 13 percent figure; Thursday is warm and dry at 78.0 with a figure of 2 percent; Friday is the week's clear day, code 0, at 76.5 with no rain figure at all. The weekend runs warm: Saturday 79.9 and partly cloudy, Sunday 76.6 with a shower code and an 18 percent figure. Monday's advice stands from the morning: a damp, gray afternoon commute is likelier than a dry one, and the umbrella can go back in the closet from Thursday.