2-3″ per hour, minor flooding, 38% higher crash risk.

HOUSTON – TUESDAY: We’re monitoring a low however actual extreme climate danger for each Tuesday and Wednesday for our viewing space for Excessive Rainfall.

Article Overview:

• Future-track is displaying the height time for heavy rain round 4–5 am for areas to the west

• More concentrated concentrate on Houston round dawn

• More widespread round midday.

You can monitor radar right here: Before you permit your own home Tuesday morning.

Tuesday’s Severe Weather Threat:

The principal concern is extreme rainfall. The NWS Service defines a Marginal Risk as a 1 out of 4 for extreme rainfall — that’s no less than a 5% probability that rainfall will exceed native flash flood steerage in some spots. Meaning, we’re monitoring remoted cases of excessive water, flash flooding, or simply extreme runoff.

Localized heavy rain might result in minor flooding, with rainfall charges probably peaking within the 2–3 inches per hour vary.

• That means these intense downpours can hit the bottom so quick that they rapidly overwhelm streets and create speedy runoff. 

WATCH: So what does it imply once we say the bottom is saturated?! How does it relate to a flood danger.

Now that you recognize our climate danger for Tuesday, let’s speak about timing:

This can nonetheless change, but it surely provides you a good suggestion of the sample so you’ll be able to plan your day.

While we’ll see the possibility for rain all through the day on Tuesday, proper now the future-track is displaying the height time for heavy rain round 4–5 a.m. for areas to the west. That exercise then shifts east, with a extra concentrated concentrate on Houston round dawn and changing into extra widespread round midday.

Weather and Traffic Together:

One 2025 examine on crash danger throughout rainfall in Texas, information from 2006 to 2021, discovered that rain considerably elevates crash danger. I don’t assume that’s a shock, however I used to be within the numbers.

The examine confirmed rain will increase crash danger by a median of 38%, and that danger peaks sharply within the early morning hours from 4 to eight a.m. That’s due to lowered visibility throughout the night-to-morning transition, decrease driver alertness, and the slippery, harmful circumstances rain creates on our roadways.

Take it gradual on the roadways Tuesday morning!

Brittany