Overview

• Afternoon highs in the upper 80s to low 90s continue, with 11 October days at 90° or hotter placing 2025 second to last year’s record pace.
• Waller County enacted a burn ban on Wednesday, and Harris County is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to implement one.
• Winds turning onshore Friday will pull in Gulf moisture, bringing the month’s best chance for scattered rain.
• The highest odds for showers and thunderstorms arrive Saturday night into Sunday with a cold front, then cooler, less humid air follows.
• The National Hurricane Center reports Tropical Storm Lorenzo has dissipated and the Atlantic is otherwise quiet for the next few days.