Woodlands Weather This Week – January 15 - 19, 2024 – You will NOT believe how this week ends…

THE WOODLANDS, TX – Winter finally hit. Fortunately, it’s sort of a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ scenario; the next two days or so will be hairy for many, but by Wednesday afternoon we’ll be well above freezing for a while. This isn’t exactly like the hard freeze that hit The Woodlands a couple of years ago, but using a little common sense and taking these precious few relatively warm hours to finish your home preparations will allow you to make it through just fine.

Believe it or not, some Woodlands area homes saw a little bit of snow this morning. Most uncovered outdoor pipes are already filled with frozen water or slush, but it shouldn’t have gotten too cold to burst pipes. This is your magic hour to do what you can – in the absence of insulation or pool noodles, grab blankets, towels, even newspapers and bubble wrap now and do what you can. If we get over freezing today, it will be by one degree or so and very brief, so don’t expect a thaw. The winds that are in excess of 10 mph are making it feel like it’s in the 20s.

We’ll hit the 20s ‘for realsies’ by 6 o’clock tonight as the clouds move away, depriving us of any natural blanket to trap warm air near us. Twelve hours later we’ll be in the teens, and we’ll hit the overnight low of 17 at about 7:00 on Tuesday morning.

Tuesday will be deceptively sunny. The morning will be bitingly cold, with the brisk winds maintaining their pace and giving a chill factor making it feel like a mind-numbing five degrees. But late in the afternoon we’ll actually get over freezing for an hour or so and the winds will die down. Overnight Tuesday into Wednesday it will once again be frigid, with an early morning low of 18 under cloudless skies.

The screw turns on Wednesday. We will actually have a 30 degree difference between breakfast and lunch. As the pressure plummets and the dew point rises, we’ll soar all the way up to a high of 49 degrees under mostly sunny skies. As nightfall hits, we’ll only go about eight degrees cooler for our overnight low, staying well above freezing, partially helped by a full horizon’s worth of clouds moving in.

The warming trend continues on Thursday, with the high temperature peaking at 69 degrees as the pressure hits a low of about 29 inches of mercury. Early in the morning will be about a 25 percent chance of rain. We’ll hit that high right as the clouds move away and the pressure starts creeping back up, so expect the temperature to plummet and settle around 36 for the low.

Friday will be one of those gorgeous winter days in the ‘sweet zone’ – moderate winds chilling things down as the natural high hits 52 under partly cloudy skies. However, as you end the work week and prepare for the weekend, expect another night or so of low temperatures dipping below freezing but counterpointed by warmer, cloudier weather.

And what’s that on the latter-next-week horizon… could it be thunderstorms…?

Stay tuned to Woodlands Online for our Weekend Weather report coming on Friday.