{"id":108375,"date":"2026-01-02T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:56:12","slug":"friday-afternoon-brings-the-heat-possibly-record-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108375\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon brings the heat \u2014 possibly record heat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p>Record highs could be broken FridayWarm temps through next week<\/p>\n<p>Hot &amp; sunny<br \/>A big warm-up is underway. While humidity has increased, the air is still relatively dry. Dry air makes it easier to have a wide range from morning lows to afternoon highs. Friday&#8217;s morning lows will already be close to our average high temps, so afternoon temps will be extra, extra warm. Southwest winds will catapult highs to the upper 80s across the Coastal Bend on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767358572_265_.png\" alt=\"Record High Possible Tomorrow.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KRIS 6 WX<\/p>\n<p>A weak cold front arrives on Saturday, but it won&#8217;t stop the heatwave. Aside from Sunday, afternoon highs will remain near 80\u00baF through next week.<\/p>\n<p>How about some rain?<br \/>The year 2025 ended on a dry note, with a rainfall deficit of nearly one foot. This makes 2025 the 19th driest year on record for Corpus Christi. While there&#8217;s no meaningful rain in the seven-day forecast, there are some indications that our rainfall will look more promising in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI FORECAST<br \/>Thursday night: Partly cloudy, warmer<br \/>Temperature: Low 60\u00baF<\/p>\n<p>Winds: SSW 5 mph<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Sunny and hot!<br \/>Temperature: High 86\u00baF<br \/>Winds: SW 10-15 mph<\/p>\n<p>Friday night: Clear skies<br \/>Temperature: Low 59\u00baF<br \/>Winds: S 5 mph<\/p>\n<p>Have a safe evening and Happy New Year!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Happy New Year! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Record highs could be broken FridayWarm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14678,3816,6965,155,6076,157,156,3817,3818,3819,28007,3821],"class_list":["post-108375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-coastal-bend-forecast","tag-coastal-bend-rain","tag-coastal-bend-weather","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-forecast","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-rain","tag-corpus-christi-temperature","tag-corpus-christi-weather","tag-corpus-forecast","tag-corpus-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}