{"id":256606,"date":"2026-04-08T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256606\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:09:06","slug":"rain-is-headed-toward-long-beach-thunderstorms-possible-this-weekend-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256606\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain is headed toward Long Beach; thunderstorms possible this weekend \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two storm systems are expected to bring rain showers to Long Beach this weekend, with the first set to arrive on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters say the storm systems may drop up to three-quarters of an inch of rain on Long Beach beginning Friday evening and lasting through Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a slight chance of thunderstorms from Friday through Saturday evening. A colder system is expected to follow the first system, arriving on Sunday and lingering through Monday morning, forecasters said.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: \u201cIt won\u2019t be raining everywhere all weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current projections call for \u201clengthy periods of no rain with sunshine, then quick escalation to brief heavy rain and possible thunderstorms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>High temperatures are expected to remain in the mid-70s through Friday, then drop to the low-70s to high-60s on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in April, Long Beach saw just over two-tenths of an inch of rain. After a nearly dry March, the city is at 4.47 inches of rain this year \u2014 almost identical to last year at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two storm systems are expected to bring rain showers to Long Beach this weekend, with the first set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,19],"class_list":["post-256606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}