Areas of Houston picked up as much of two inches of accumulation from the storms that blew over last evening with large size hail and gusty winds, and there is more stormy weather coming through this morning, though not as intense nor widespread as last night and mostly south of I-10.
Be on the lookout for downed trees if you'll be driving this morning. There were power outages last night mostly resolved by this morning. As of 5am Saturday Brazoria County has a lingering 5,400 homes without power, Harris County at under 1500. Just before ten last night close to 8,000 customers were in the dark.
Areas of Belleville and Sugar Land picked up two inch sized hail in the storms that came through during rush hour yesterday. There was an isolated tornado.
Hobby Airport had to call a ground stop for several hours last night. There are 23 cancelled flights and 18 delays at Bush Intercontinental as weekend air travel gets started Saturday morning. Hobby has two cancellations and five delays.
The carnival at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo had to briefly shut down temporarily. The Jonas Brothers were able to perform as scheduled.
This morning's rain should move though quickly. Moderate street flood risk today mainly to the west. Overnight the national weather service issued a couple severe thunderstorm warnings but those have expired.
Hopefully this morning's weather will cooperate with the downtown Houston St.Patricks Day Parade at Franklin at noon. The actual day to celebrate the Irish is tomorrow but the drinking holiday serving up heaping dishes of corned beef and cabbage has become more of a weekend-long thing.
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