What is the weather like in Houston on July 4? This is what the story says

There’s more than a week until the Fourth of July, but Southeast Texas is already preparing for it to be a typically steamy holiday. Although it’s difficult to predict the day’s exact temperatures more than a week out, here’s a historical look at the Fourth of July in the Houston, Galveston and Beaumont areas.

Arguably the worst weather to hit the Houston area on July 4 occurred around Baytown in 1970, when an F1 tornado made landfall around 7 p.m. and caused damage costing between $200,000 and $300,000. dollars.

The Fourth of July celebrations were interrupted by severe thunderstorms, heavy hail and a tornado that overturned a trailer and injured one person, according to a story published at the time in the Baytown Sun. The official July 4 temperature recorded at Bush Intercontinental Airport was 100 degrees, which at the time matched the Houston area record set in 1933.

As Houston prepares for another warm Fourth of July, here’s a look at how the weather in Southeast Texas on July 4 has changed over the years and what you can expect.

The hottest July 4 temperature in Houston was 101 degrees, recorded in 2009; and the coldest was 66 in 1910, according to weather data from Bush Intercontinental Airport, the city’s official climate monitoring site. Since 2000, Houston’s July 4 temperature has been in the triple digits 4% of the time, and it has rained 11 times. The most precipitation Houston has ever recorded on July 4 was 4.19 inches of rain in 2018.

The hottest temperature recorded in Galveston on July 4 was 95 degrees in 2020 and the coldest was 69 in 1910. Since 2000, the temperature in Galveston on July 4 has never reached over 100 degrees and it has rained nine times. July 4 in Galveston saw the most precipitation since 2000 in 2018, with 2.27 inches of rain.

The hottest temperature recorded in Beaumont on July 4 was 100 degrees in 2011 and the coldest was 65 in 1924. Since 2000, the temperature in Beaumont has reached over 100 degrees about 10% of the time and it has rained nine times. The most July 4 rainfall in Beaumont since 2000 was 3.48 inches in 2006.