Space City post - 7/24

Space City post - 7/24A look into our rain chances tomorrow & Saturday and the return of the heat next week. Also, an interesting write up about the temps at IAH. (Link attached) ...........From Space City Weather -Hot weather, rain chances return to Houston on Friday, and the curious case of IAH. July 24, 2025 at 7:02 am by Matt Lanza. In brief:
*The Gulf tropical disturbance is unlikely to develop but it will bring some rain to the area tomorrow and Saturday.
*We have one more shot at 100 today before a brief break.
*More 100 chances return next week. Today we also dive into Bush Airport and talk about why it seemed to be such an outlier on Tuesday.FIRST, THE TROPICS -*Let's start quickly this morning with the tropics and on this disturbance we have moving across the Gulf today and into our region tomorrow.
*There continues to be little to no chance of development with this. For Greater Houston, that means an increase in rain chances tomorrow and Saturday. (And even that should be manageable)Now, how much rain? Well, Friday will be interesting. It could go one of two ways I think. ➡️The first way? The disturbance approaches Texas and we get a solid rain shield offshore, so coastal areas see a fair bit of rain in the morning, with inland areas seeing just a few scattered afternoon thunderstorms. ➡️The second? We see a small bit of rain in the morning at the coast and then more numerous showers and afternoon thunderstorms moving southeast to northwest across the region. ➡️I am leaning heavily toward the coastal rain outcome, where inland areas see some scattered storms but nothing too widespread.
*This means folks in Galveston could easily see a couple inches of rain and more numerous showers and storms may push across Brazoria, Galveston, and Chambers Counties.➡️On Saturday, we'll probably see a repeat, except I think storms could be more numerous across the entire region.
➡️As we've been saying, it should not be a total washout, but you'll want to have some rain plans in place on both Friday and Saturday if you're planning outdoor activities.*Rain totals will be on the order of probably 1 to 2 inches at the coast and a gradual trailing off of rain inland down to about a half-inch to inch inside the 610 Loop and less than that farther inland on average.
*Some areas may see little to no rain.
*Other isolated pockets, especially south and east of Houston could see 3 to 4 inches of rain.NEXT, THE HEAT -*We hit 99 degrees yesterday, and we will make another run for 99 or 100 today probably.
*With clouds and showers around, Friday and Saturday should be substantially less hot but look for the heat to return Sunday or Monday.
*We will be making another run at 100 degrees by Tuesday or Wednesday.....................................Is the IAH thermometer rigged?The fun thing about weather is that no matter where you live, if something looks the slightest bit suspicious, people start weighing in with lukewarm and hot takes about why there's something wrong with a temperature sensor, someone has an agenda and is purposefully fudging data, and on and on. One of my favorites is when Washington, DC gets snow, virtually the entire city gets mad at whoever measures the snow at Reagan Airport because it is obviously too low. In Philadelphia, you get the opposite, the snow totals almost always get yelled at by people for being inflated.Well, we've got ourselves a fun game of this happening in Houston now. On Tuesday, when IAH hit 100 degrees, many people were convinced it made no sense.Rest of the story here......spacecityweather.com /hot-weather-rain-ch ances-return-to-hous ton-on-friday-a