Convenience Big Store: When is Houston most at risk for a hurricane?

Connect and Discover Sale: 25¢
Find essential local news anytime with unlimited digital access.
Act Now

If you read one thing

Hurricane Lee as seen from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, on Sept. 7. Lee is forecast to become a major hurricane as it moves north and west through the upcoming weekend.

Photo by: NOAA/National Weather Service

Hurricane season is here. When does Houston typically see the worst of it?

Hurricane season is officially underway and it looks like this year could be one for the record books. But when is hurricane season the worst in Houston?

Stay in the Loop

A woman in shackles is patted down before boarding the first deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans after a US-Venezuelan agreement in Harlingen, Texas, on Oct.18, 2023. The United States said on Oct. 5, 2023, it will resume deportation flights to Venezuela after a deal with Caracas, as President Joe Biden, seeking reelection, comes under pressure to halt border crossings. Washington has for years halted sending migrants back to Venezuela due to instability in the South American nation and still maintains sanctions against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. (Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Photo by: Veronica G. Cardenas/TNS

Biden orders immigrants caught illegally crossing border to be immediately sent home

The move would stop migrants entering the U.S. illegally from staying while they await processing through immigration courts.

HOUCHRON CAPTION (12/12/1999): In 1925, Hermann Hospital, now the Cullen Pavilion, stood alone where the Texas Medical Center would rise decades later. The hospital adjoins Hermann Park, which is on property donated to the city by George H. Hermann in 1914. HOUSTON CHRONICLE SPECIAL SECTION: THE HOUSTON CENTURY.

Photo by: Houston Chronicle Files

Key moments that made Houston's Texas Medical Center the largest in the world

Nearly 100 years ago, the site of what is now the Texas Medical Center was home to just one hospital. Today it's the largest medical center in the world.

Jeremy Vela, a surveillance field coordinator, sorts mosquitos Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at Harris County Public Health's mosquito surveillance lab in Houston. The process, called

Photo by: Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer

Climate change could make mosquitoes more prevalent in Houston

There is evidence to suggest that mosquitoes are more prevalent this year in Harris County.

Construction continues for Great Wolf Lodge Water Park Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Webster.

Photo by: Raquel Natalicchio, Staff Photographer

New Nutcracker Market will debut this winter at Great Wolf Lodge in Webster

Houston shoppers will have a new outlet to buy Christmas decorations and holiday gifts in 2024 when a new Nutcracker Market debuts at Great Wolf Lodge.

Pick of the Day

United by Design's Chelsea Benoit, Preston Gaines, sitting and Anthony Rose in their gallery on Thursday, May 30, 2024 in Houston.

Photo by: Elizabeth Conley, Staff Photographer

Four underground art galleries Houstonians may not know about

Exhibits in the living room? Friday art shows in 400-square-foot spaces? Millennial gallerists make it work.

What else is going on

McReynolds Middle School students are blocked by a train as they walk home from school on October 22, 2022. The school is about 300 feet from a busy section of tracks close to the Union Pacific Englewood Yard in Houston's Fifth Ward.

Photo by: Sharon Steinmann

Editorial: HISD students are crawling under stalled trains to get to school. Where's the outrage?

Annoyed by stalled trains in Houston? Imagine going to school near a rail yard. McReynolds students risk life and limb to get to class when trains block the way.

Michael Kelly of the Oakland Athletics walks off the field during a pitching change in the fourth inning of a game against the Texas Rangers at the Oakland Coliseum on May 8, 2024 in Oakland, California.

Photo by: Brandon Sloter/Getty Images

Ex-Astros minor leaguer Michael Kelly suspended for betting on baseball

Oakland A's reliever Michael Kelly bet on games during the 2021 postseason while he was a member of the Astros minor league system.

The Comma Hospitality team behind the restaurant Neo and the forthcoming Kira.

Photo by: Adrian Barboza

Omakase hit Neo to open Upper Kirby bar serving up hand rolls, drinks and vinyl

One of Houston's most exclusive Japanese restaurants will offer food and drinks in a more casual bar setting.

An alligator spotted at Brazos Bend State Park. Today, alligators face new threats of extreme weather and invasive species that may prove to be the last straw for these ancient reptiles.

Photo by: Scott Solomon/Contributor

Houston suburb uses grapple truck to remove huge alligator from ditch

The city of Mont Belvieu Animal Control Department started its week with a unique challenge: removing a 12-foot alligator from a ditch near Eagle Drive.