Downpours, floods likely: This is your heads up Houston & surroundings

Southeast Texas and western Louisiana residents must enjoy the weekend as the weather will quickly deteriorate early next week and bring heavy rounds of constant rain, which may increase the threat of flooding.

The weekend will start cold and breezy, borderline windy for the Texas coast and the western portion of the state. By Sunday, a trough will increase clouds along the coast. This trough is associated with a storm moving from the northeast portion of Mexico. On Monday there will be a warm front swinging over the Lone Star State, of course causing a temperature rollercoaster, but also keeping the clouds and scattered showers lingering around, as there will be the center of the low passing by the southern half of the state, pushing in a cold front on Tuesday.

This series of storms and front will keep the rains coming. Specifically, the heaviest storm period happening between Tuesday and Thursday, where parts of Southeast Texas will continue to top off their rain gauges accumulating another 2-3 inches in addition to the 1-3 inches received between Sunday and Tuesday. Of course, this rainfall forecast is only generally speaking, and there could be some areas where more persistent rainfall sets camp that could receive over 6 inches of rain.

We know prolonged rain activity over Southeast Texas brings special attention. There might be many with weather fatigue after this past week with winter weather. But we please ask you to stay weather aware and continue to monitor our app and our website. Our team of meteorologists will continue to keep you updated this week throughout the weekend and of course all next week.

This is a good time to have a secondary plan in case you have something set up for outdoors next week, especially between Monday and Thursday. Make sure you plan carefully and stay up to date with the forecast.

**This same information can be seen in Spanish, written by our bilingual meteorologists if you set our app to Spanish inside the settings option on the top right. Tell your family and friends who only speak Spanish so that they can also be informed and stay safe, please.**