Houston Wednesday Weather: Overcast and Warm at 81, With Rain Chances Building Toward Halloween
Houston starts Wednesday at 68 degrees under clearing skies, but clouds take over for a warm, mostly dry midweek - highs near 81 Wednesday and 79 Thursday - before rain chances climb Friday and peak Saturday, then clear in time for trick-or-treating.
Houston's Wednesday opens mild and quiet: 67.7 degrees and clear in the early hours, on the way to an overcast afternoon high of 80.6 degrees with an overnight low of 66.3, according to the station's live Open-Meteo feed. The chance of rain Wednesday is just 7 percent - a mostly cloudy, comfortable day, in FOX 26's phrase, with only a few isolated showers possible.
Thursday stays in the same pattern: overcast, a high of 78.7 and a low of 64.8, with rain chances at 4 percent. The change arrives Friday, when light drizzle enters the forecast (high 80.4, low 70.5, rain chance 11 percent) ahead of a plume of moisture that FOX 26 expects to bring at least scattered showers and storms Friday and into Halloween morning.
Saturday is the wettest day of the seven-day outlook on the current feed - overcast and 85.5 degrees, with the rain chance up to 47 percent - before the pattern breaks: Sunday turns hot and mostly dry at 89.4 degrees, Monday hotter still at 90.9 with passing showers, and next Tuesday cools to 77.8 with rain likely. For Halloween plans, the trend is the good news: the models FOX 26 cites are moving the rain out by Saturday evening, in time for trick-or-treating - a forecast the Weather Desk will keep updating as the weekend nears.
