Summary: White with maybe some grey stratus clouds looked to be scattered across the sky, during the morning, afternoon, evening, and maybe night. I believe there was a 0 percent chance for rain for the Houston, TX area, during the day. I did not hear about, or see any rain falling anywhere in, or near the Houston, TX area, during anytime of the day. I did not see, or feel any rain drops, where I was in the Houston, TX area, during anytime of the day. It felt very cold, almost freezing, during the early morning. It felt cold, during the mid and late morning. It felt cold, almost very cool, during the afternoon. It felt cold, during the evening. It felt very cold, during the night. The wind speeds were calm with light to moderate gusts.
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Issued by NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
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000 FXUS64 KHGX 012348 AFDHGX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 548 PM CST Fri Jan 1 2021 .AVIATION [00Z TAF Issuance]... MVFR conditions courtesy of an overcast cloud layer around 2,500 ft is currently affecting our northern airports (CLL, UTS, CXO) and is expected to extend down to IAH in a few hours as well. Further south, conditions will remain VFR with a low level scattered cloud deck moving in later on tonight. For the northern airports, expect the MVFR conditions to linger through tomorrow morning before they scatter out and bring a return to VFR conditions by late morning. Looking ahead for Saturday evening, winds will transition to light and variable as high pressure moves over southeast Texas. && .PREV DISCUSSION /Issued 325 PM CST Fri Jan 1 2021/... .DISCUSSION... New Year, New Weather! Okay, not really. But after a stretch with some fairly big weather impacts, this next week looks a little more quiet. Things look chilly in the short term, followed by a gradual warming trend into next week. Expect a cold front in the middle of next week, but looks to be not nearly as impactful - we`ll get a brief chance of some showers and the warming trend will be halted, but that`s about it. .SHORT TERM [Through Saturday Night]... A handy look at the satellite shows exiting cirrus at the coast, and an intruding deck of stratus coming in from the north. In between, there is a narrow channel of clear sky. Winds are out of the northwest. That stratus deck should be expected to continue to spread across the area as the upper trough that supported yesterday`s strong weather moves through. Not looking for much more than clouds overnight, but guidance does suggest a very low chance of light showers if you`re spending the night 40-60 miles offshore. Surface analysis suggests there may be a very subtle secondary cold front that would make its way across the area very late tonight. There shouldn`t be much in the way of noticeable impact here, but it should usher in drier air that will scatter out the stratus deck coming into Southeast Texas this afternoon. Behind it, we`ll see weak high pressure pass across the area tomorrow. If it moves quickly enough, we could see light, onshore flow resume by sunrise on Sunday. .LONG TERM [Sunday Through Friday]... High pressure will be building across Southeast Texas on Sunday that will stick around through at least Tuesday before sliding off to the east. This will provide our region will mostly clear skies and rather benign weather through that time frame. There may be some lingering high level clouds on Sunday as a weak upper level low swings through the area, but this will be moving to the east rather quickly. Mid-level ridging builds on Monday into Tuesday over Texas really helping to give us clear skies and light winds. High temperatures on Sunday will be in the low to mid 60s with lows Sunday night in the mid 30s to low 40s. Rising heights and sunny skies will help to induce a gradual warming each day through Wednesday as highs climb to near 70 and lows into the 50s. The next disturbance to pass through the area looks to arrive midweek bringing with it another chance of precipitation. There has been some differences between runs and between models on the strength and timing of this system, but it generally seems that the associated cold front will pass through the region overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. This is looking to be moving relatively quickly with high pressure building back in by late Thursday into Friday returning us to chilly and clear weather. .MARINE... Northwest winds have diminished since earlier this morning, making the main marine concern today the low water in the bays today. Water levels at Galveston Bay entrance fell to 1.5 feet below MLLW at low tide, and water levels below 1 foot MLLW will linger deep into the afternoon until the swing back up to high tide begins in earnest. Look for onshore flow to resume Saturday night or Sunday morning, staying light to moderate into the middle of the week. At that time, another cold front is expected to pass through, but the pressure gradients involved will mean that unlike gales we`ve seen recently, winds are not likely to be nearly as strong before or after this front passes. .CLIMATE... 2020 has come to an end and it will be one for the record books. Overall the region was drier than normal and exceptionally warm. It was so warm that each of the primary climate site`s average temperature for 2020 ranked in the top five warmest on record. The City of College Station finished as the 5th warmest with an average temperature of 70.9 degrees. The Cities of Houston and Galveston both tied for the second warmest years at 72.1 degrees and 74.3 degrees, respectively. Houston-Hobby had a yearly average temperature of 73.5 degrees making it *the* warmest year on record, beating out 2017 that had an average temperature of 73.3 degrees. Generally the area was around 5 to 10 inches of rain below normal, besides some localized spots like Houston-Hobby that lucked out with a few very rainy days during the tropical season making it the only climate site to see above normal precipitation. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... College Station (CLL) 34 54 35 64 36 / 10 0 0 0 0 Houston (IAH) 38 53 37 64 41 / 0 0 0 0 0 Galveston (GLS) 43 54 48 62 51 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...None. GM...Low Water Advisory until 6 PM CST this evening for the following zones: Galveston Bay...Matagorda Bay. && $$ DISCUSSION...Luchs SHORT TERM...Luchs LONG TERM...Fowler AVIATION...Batiste MARINE...Luchs CLIMATE...Fowler
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