Those areas of rotation being shown on KHOU right now - we are basically between them. Lots of roaring winds. One sent me running to the living room to check on the 'rents. It seems to have moved over us now. We are near gessner and bellaire.

Heavy rain falling now in far southwest Houston. It's also cold. Not a bit of wind, but continual lightning. Not much thunder either.
On edit - it is as dark as night here right now and pretty scary.

Waiting patiently in far southwest Houston... I'm gong to wait for the storm to pass before trying to head downtown. So far we are just getting occasional lighting/thunder, off and on wind and only a few drops of rain. Did any of you catch the major red sky at sunrise this morning? I couldn't get a ...

It seems like the winds are already diminishing in southwest Houston. Longer periods of time between gusts now, although the gusts are still high.

I will be leaving downtown Houston in about 20 minutes. What are the chances of me making it home to southwest Houston without flooding out? Anyone out and about?

On radar it looks like Meyerland is about to get smacked. Again. They can not get a break.

Didn't even see this one pop up! 2. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico are associated with a trough of low pressure that is drifting westward. Upper-level winds are not expected to be conducive for significant development before this system moves inland over ...

My birthday falls on October 14, and it's a tradition for me to spend it in Galveston. 2014 it was very warm, but 2015, we had long sleeves and flannel on. Last year it was warm again. Libras are all about balance, so I am going to predict the first cold front to be October 14. :-) It's scientific e...

Latest from Jeff (no graphics): Heavy rainfall possible this weekend. 92L (FL Straits) is looking better organized and has some development potential in the Gul f An upper level low pressure system over the NW Gulf of Mexico along with a westward moving tropical wave and a cold front approaching fro...

Isn't the general consensus with storms that if they strengthen/organize, they are more likely to turn poleward? If that's the case, it's really dependent on when/if strengthening/organization begins, yes? Or maybe that's exactly what you just said. LOL. I've got the Fridays in my head and I can't t...

Morning briefing from Jeff regarding our area of disturbed weather as well as 99L: Increasing heavy rainfall threat this weekend generally along and SE of US 59. An upper level low over the NW Gulf will move inland over S TX today and will gradually result in the formation of a mid level and possibl...

1. I don't know what bearing this has on Houston's chances of getting hit, but I'll post it anyway: National Weather Service New Orleans LA 355 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2016 Heading into next week, both the ECMWF and the GFS indicate that any potential tropical system should remain east of the region. It ...

Morning briefing from Jeff (I've taken out non-99L references). No graphics (srainhoutx, if you want to post his discussion with graphics, please feel free to delete mine. I still haven't figured out how to resize down to post graphics): 99L: Concern is growing that a tropical cyclone will move into...

Morning briefing from Jeff (1 hour ago, no graphics): Jeffrey Additional rainfall today before a few “drier” days followed by increasing rain chances for the end of the week into the weekend. Atlantic tropics becoming active as we near the peak of the hurricane season. Tropical air mass remains in p...

Pouring rain, lots of lightning/thunder in downtown Houston right now... More thunder than we have had with the last few days of showers...

3:27 pm discussion Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 327 PM CDT Mon Aug 15 2016 .DISCUSSION... Best shower and thunderstorm coverage this afternoon has been across our far eastern and southeastern locations. These spots, along with the better coverage off to our ...

11:47 pm Aviation: Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1147 PM CDT Sat Aug 13 2016 .AVIATION... All SETX aviation terminals received measurable rain this afternoon. The rain moistened soil may contribute to additional patches of light fog and stratus around daybrea...

10:10 pm AFD: 324 FXUS64 KHGX 140310 AFDHGX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1010 PM CDT Sat Aug 13 2016 .DISCUSSION... The MCS was pushing through the coastal areas at 10 PM. Behind the leading edge of the system, light to moderate rainfall was occurring mainly...

Thunder and light rain in southwest Houston. The sky has a weird, almost wintertime look, so I'm thinking the front is moving through?
Cold fronts in the summer are always strange to me. The clouds look like November, but the temperatures are all summer!

Update from Jeff: Tremendous rainfall event continues over southern Louisiana…shifting slowly toward E/SE TX. Threat for heavy rainfall will increase this afternoon and remain into Monday. Prolific rainfall event over southern Louisiana along and south of a “tropical” low pressure system has resulte...