Hourly Weather Forecast for Houston, TX - The Weather Channel | Weather.com (2024)

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What is the coldest month in Houston Texas? ›

The climate of Houston is classified as a humid subtropical climate, with tropical influences. August normally ranks as the warmest month at an average temperature of 95 °F (35 °C) and January the coldest month at an average temperature of 63 °F (17 °C).

Cloudy with showers. High around 85F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph.

Houston's temperate climate sustains tropical vegetation and allows the city's residents and visitors an enviable outdoor lifestyle. Houston averages only 18.0 days per year with temperatures of 32°F or less and 99.6 days with high temperatures of 90°F or more. Temperatures rarely reach 100°F.

On a night when there's cloud cover, the low temperature is usually higher than it would otherwise be, or higher than nearby areas with less cloud cover, since heat radiation is partially blocked by the clouds, and the thermal energy remains closer to the ground.

Cloud cover is expressed in percent (if not otherwise indicated), from 0 to 100%: 100% means that no clear sky is visible. Cloud cover may be expressed as percent on each level. The total cloud cover is not the addition of cloud cover % in different layers.

The hottest temperature ever in Houston

“Feels-like” temperatures regularly rise to 110-plus degrees in southeast Texas, but what is the hottest actual temperature ever recorded? The answer is 109 degrees, which has happened twice at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the city's official weather observation station.

Since “Houston” was the first spoken word from the moon, the city of Houston has become known for its space and science contributions, and is the home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Houston isn't just a great place for young professionals, it's an ideal place to raise a family. Not only does Houston have an abundance of safe, quiet, and walkable neighborhoods, the cost of living and home prices make it easier to start a family than anywhere else in the state!

“Our proximity to the Gulf of Mexico is really the reason it's as humid as it is here during the summer,” Ballard says. “You can see the effects of the Gulf when you look at a physical map of the state of Texas.

Severe weather has the potential to occur year-round in Houston.

What is the hottest city in Texas? ›

With an average of 97.6 degrees, the hottest major Texas city is El Paso. Austin comes in as the second-hottest, followed by San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston.

There is a one-in-three chance that 2024 will be warmer than 2023 and a 99% chance it would rank among the five warmest on record, Reuters reported, and as the El Niño conditions likely transition to La Niña during the summer and fall this year, researchers are forecasting an“extremely active” hurricane season.

Generally Dallas is a bit hotter and considerably drier than Houston, routinely hitting 103°-107°F in summer when Houston will be in the upper 90s. We'll be complaining about the humidity when it we get dew points in the sixties while Houston considers that a brisk day.

Cloud cover is the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds in a location measurable by ground instrument or satellite-derived observation. The assumption that cloud cover is an indication of the diffuse solar power of the atmosphere is the basis for cloud cover based models in this section.

Cloud seeding (also called precipitation enhancement) is a form of weather modification used to stimulate clouds to produce more rain. The process involves using aircraft to spray clouds with small particles that have a structure like ice, such as silver iodide.

During the day, clouds reflect a portion of the solar energy that reaches Earth back into space. This prevents the planet from becoming too warm. Clouds can also act like a blanket, trapping heat on Earth by absorbing the heat released by the surface of the planet.

High-level clouds: High-level clouds occur above about 20,000 feet and are given the prefix "cirro-".