Houston Weather for Monday, PM Update: 61.9 Degrees and Overcast, Monday's Rain Chance Now 73 Percent — and Tuesday's Rain Chance Eases to 25 Percent

Houston's Monday afternoon reads cooler and wetter than the morning promised. The station's live weather feed at mid-afternoon put the temperature at 61.9 degrees, feeling like 63.1, under overcast skies, with Monday's rain chance now at 73 percent and drizzle in the day's code. Monday's high reads 64.4 degrees with a low of 57.7.

Two changes from this station's earlier Monday files deserve to be stated plainly. First, Monday's rain chance has risen — the 13:04 update carried 54 percent; the live feed now reads 73 percent, so the evening hours carry the day's best chance of rain. Second, Tuesday has dried out: where the morning files read heavy rain for Tuesday, the live feed now reads a rain code with a 25 percent chance, a high of 69.5 and a low of 59.5. A forecast that moves is not a forecast that was wrong to file — it is the feed updating, and this update exists to say so.

The rest of the week warms up and dries out. Wednesday reads a 26 percent rain chance with a high of 77.2; Thursday and Friday turn overcast and dry, with highs of 78.3 and 78.7 and rain chances of 1 percent and zero; Saturday reads overcast at 77.5 with a 6 percent chance; and Sunday brings the next rain code, at 72.7 degrees with a 23 percent chance.

The Weather Desk's next scheduled file is the 17:00 update. Nothing in the live feed this afternoon carries a severe-weather signal for Houston — this is a rain-chance story, not a storm story, and it is filed as exactly that.