WOODLANDS WEEKEND WEATHER – You’re getting warmer… you’re getting warmer…

THE WOODLANDS, TX – At the risk of jinxing it, it looks like we just might emerge from this winter season without a repeat of last year’s Snowmageddon. With our pipes intact and our heating bills somewhat manageable, we’re about to see the slow-but-steady upwards trend in temperatures that herald the transition from winter to spring.

The smattering of rains we’ve experienced over the past day will threaten to continue throughout Friday afternoon, but will kick into high gear tonight into Saturday morning, bringing a wet start to the weekend. High temps both today and Saturday will only breach the mid 40s and hover around the 30s both nights.

Saturday night you can expect the skies to open up and dump up to a quarter-inch of rain in the darkness and into Sunday morning. Expect to shiver throughout today as highs will only hit the mid 40s and go back down into the 30s tonight – not freezing, but not exactly swimsuit weather either, with a significant windy chill as a side order to the rain entree.

Sunday around lunchtime, both the rains and the significant cloud cover should clear up, and the gusting winds that have added to the chill should finally die down around the same time. From that point, the only danger of precipitation we should see won’t be until nearly week later; there’s a small chance of some wetness during the night that bridges Wednesday to Thursday, but our daytimes all week should be rain free.

Despite the lack of rain and wind, it will still be cold on Sunday but in the late afternoon might actually get up to the 60-degree mark before plunging back down into the 30s.

The general warming trend continues on Monday with mostly sunny skies and a high temperature that will definitely settle in the mid-60s. That night, the cloud cover will return but this time without the precipitation it won’t lock in the cold, and the low will settle in around 40.

The cloud cover will continue throughout Tuesday, warming us up into the upper 60s and a low that will be nearly ten degrees higher than that of the night before. Wednesday will be even warmer and drier and we should finally break the 70s for a high – not quite time to turn on the central air conditioning, but that time will come soon enough. As noted earlier Wednesday night there’s a small chance of some rain but nothing too significant in either timeframe or amount of precipitation expected.

Thursday should see some more clouds that will assist the warming trend into the mid 70s for the high and the mid 50s for the low. By this time next Friday, we should be experiencing heavy cloud cover, muggy temperatures in the upper 70s, and an increasing chance of rain.

Stay tuned for weather updates from Woodlands Online.