Just a day after experiencing one of the hottest Memorial Days on record, Houston was hit with a wave of storms rolling through the area producing hail up to two inches in diameter. The severe winds from the storms resulted in glass from high-rise windows in downtown Houston to be cast into the street.
While the damage was by no means as harsh as the derecho in the city 10 days prior, it did leave over 100,000 people without power. You can report and/or track Houston-area power outages via Centerpoint and/or Entergy outage map.
There is presently a marginal risk of severe weather in Houston.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that Houston will catch a break in these storms any time soon.
The National Weather Service and AccuWeather predict another week of thunderstorms in the Houston area – with varying degrees of precipitation percentages.
Forecasters expected scattered thunderstorms to pick-up around 10 am Wednesday morning and continue until roughly 8 pm tonight. Space City Weather predicts that the biggest concern for severe weather will be between 1 pm and 5 pm.
The weather service predicts between 1 and 3 inches of rain, will a small possibility of isolated totals of over 4 inches of rainfall
According to the National Weather Service and AccuWeather, Houston will also experience intervals of thunderstorms this Thursday – though more isolated than Wednesday, with more rainy conditions and possible hail.
The weather service expects this trend continue past the weekend. There is a 80% chance of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms on Saturday, June 1, with winds up to 20 mph.
The Houston-area storms aren’t expected to relent until Wednesday, June 5, in which forecasters predict partly cloudy conditions with a 21% chance of rainfall.