The dog days of summer could help slow the spread of the coronavirus in Texas, but it may not be enough, according to new research.

A new study, published by two scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that 90% of COVID-19 transmissions through Sunday occurred in areas with a temperature from 37 to 63 degrees. The virus can and continues to spread in areas with temperatures exceeding that range, but at a slower rate, the researchers found.

“We hypothesize that the lower number of cases in tropical countries might be due to warm humid conditions, under which the spread of the virus might be slower as has been observed for other viruses,” the researchers wrote.

The study was released before peer review in the interest of helping public health officials, according to The Washington Post.

MIT scientists find 90% of coronavirus transmissions so far have occurred within a specific temperature (37 to 63F) and humidity range, but other scientists not convinced about these results: https://t.co/TBpT5hucR8 — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) March 24, 2020

Northern states, where the weather has been cooler, have reported higher growth rates than southern states, where it has been warmer, according to the study, which highlights Texas, New Mexico and Arizona as states where the spread of COVID-19 has been limited.

Despite their analysis, the researchers warn that the virus may still spread in warm, humid regions. They also suggested that public safety measures continue to be implemented worldwide to slow the virus’ spread.

“While proper quarantine measures help in ‘spreading the curve’, we believe that warm humid conditions in the coming days will be of limited use [if any] to Europe and North America,” the researchers wrote.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that too much is still unknown about the virus to predict whether it will wane in the summer months like the common cold and the flu.

“There is much more to learn about the transmissibility, severity and other features associated with COVID-19 and investigations are ongoing,” the CDC said on its website.

President Donald Trump in early February suggested that the virus could behave like the flu and diminish in warmer weather.

“By April or during the month of April, the heat, generally speaking, kills this kind of virus,” Trump said.

Jeffrey Shaman, the director of the climate and health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, told The Post that laboratory studies — in addition to statistical studies like MIT’s — are needed to know for sure how the virus will behave in warmer weather.

“You can’t put a lot of stock in that,” Shaman told The Post. “That’s a 10,000-foot statistical data set.”