Favorite Houston weather website launches clever and whimsical new app Space City Weather's new app tracks humidity (yes!). Screencap via Space City Weather If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, Houston is oddly lucky that longtime Houston science/tech writer Eric Berger was compelled to launch his Departing the Houston Chronicle, Berger realized that in the city, “a calm, rational approach to weather reporting works really well,” he told this writer in 2016. For six years, devotees have flocked to his site on the daily for that no-nonsense, rational reporting (no “wishcasting,” as he calls it, here). Now, Space City Weather has reached yet a new milestone with the launch of a clever, Houston-centric app.