Twelve months of home care for The Woodlands, set to the local numbers: about 10 freezing nights, roughly 111 days over 90 degrees, two rainy peaks and a hurricane season that runs half the year.
Seasons in The Woodlands do not look like the ones on a greeting card. There is almost no snow, a mild winter, a long hot summer and two wet peaks, one in early summer and one in fall. The forest overhead adds its own schedule of pollen, needles and leaf drop.
The calendar below uses the 1991 to 2020 NOAA normals for Bush Intercontinental Airport, the nearest long-term station, along with the Houston Health Department pollen counts and the National Hurricane Center season dates. Use it to decide when to add a deep clean, when to tighten a recurring plan and when to get ahead of storm season.
The airport averages 51.84 inches of precipitation a year. June is the wettest month at 6.00 inches, October follows at 5.46 and May sits near 5. About 64 days a year bring measurable rain and about 15 bring an inch or more.
Heat runs long: about 111 days a year reach 90 degrees or more, with normal highs of 94.5 in July and 94.9 in August. Cold is brief, about 10 nights at or below freezing, mostly from December through February, and only a tenth of an inch of snow in an average year.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. Its peak is September 10, and most activity falls between mid August and mid October.
This is the coolest stretch of the year, and the best time for jobs that need open windows or a home free of tracked-in mud. Freezing nights cluster here, about four in January, three in December and two in February on the normals, so a few cold snaps are normal.
Use the holidays as a reason to book a One-Time Deep Clean before guests arrive or right after the decorations come down. Pine needles from a real tree, plus the needles already blowing in from outside, end up in rugs and under furniture.
As windows open and people move outdoors again, pollen becomes part of the routine. The Houston Health Department counts oak, pine, sweet gum and elm pollen on weekdays, and those trees grow all around The Woodlands. When the tree counts climb, a film builds on porches, cars and window sills, and it comes inside on clothes and pets.
May brings about 5 inches of rain on the normals, so the season shifts from dust to mud by the end of it. Many households tighten a monthly plan to bi-weekly at this point and keep it there through summer.
June is the wettest month, with about 6 inches of rain, and July and August are the hottest, with highs near 95. Air conditioning runs nearly nonstop, kids are home, and kitchens and bathrooms see their heaviest use of the year.
Hurricane season begins on June 1, and the Township reminds residents that The Woodlands is in a hurricane-prone zone. A thorough clean before late August means the home starts the busiest part of the season in good shape, with less to deal with if a storm knocks out power.
September 10 is the statistical peak of hurricane season, and the busiest window runs to mid October. October is also the second wettest month at 5.46 inches. After any storm, the Township's guidance is to keep spoiled food separate from green waste, since long power outages leave refrigerators to empty out.
Yard waste in The Woodlands goes out weekly in compostable or Kraft paper bags, never petroleum plastic, so bag leaves and needles promptly rather than letting them pile up by the doors. Before Thanksgiving, a deep clean resets the home for the holidays.
The questions The Woodlands homeowners ask most often about this topic, answered plainly.
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