Houston faces summer-like warmth and humidity in early April, but a weekend cold front brings a dramatic temperature drop to winter-like levels.

Before passing almost directly over the Houston region on July 8, when it caused widespread power outages and contributed to dozens of deaths, Hurricane Beryl devastated multiple Caribbean islands and was the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

Home batteries are becoming increasingly popular here in Houston. People are using them to keep the lights on, the refrigerator running, and the air conditioning humming during an outage, which is what the Wright family did when Hurricane Beryl in August 2024.

The utility leased the 15 large, mobile generators at a cost of about $880 million after the widespread power failures tied to the 2021 winter storm. The generators proved largely useless in the wake of last year’s Hurricane Beryl.

Beryl, Helene, and Milton will be replaced by the names Brianna, Holly, and Miguel when the list returns in 2030. The retired names join a list of nearly 100 retired storm names that have been retired over the last few decades, such as Andrew, Katrina and Sandy.

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the names Beryl, Helene and Milton because of the death and destruction these storms caused in 2024.

One of the nation’s most highly regarded and trusted hurricane season forecasts predicts a busier than normal 2025 hurricane season with 17 named storms and nine hurricanes. The outlook released Thursday by top hurricane researchers at Colorado State University is the first widely recognized hurricane season forecast of the year,

Texas is one of four states at an increased risk of seeing a direct hit from a hurricane or tropical storm with the coming 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, AccuWeather meteorologists told Newsweek. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30. On Wednesday, AccuWeather r eleased its 2025 hurricane forecast.

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