{"id":137760,"date":"2026-01-25T19:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137760\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:11:21","slug":"ice-reported-on-houston-roads-as-texas-winter-storm-hits-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice reported on Houston roads as Texas winter storm hits the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ice was already forming on some Houston freeways as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-weather\/article\/winter-storm-live-updates-houston-21311144.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas winter storm has arrived in Houston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Texas winter storm has arrived in Houston<\/a> on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ice was reported on Texas 288, in the toll lane near the Harris\/Brazoria County line. Ice is also reported on the Grand Parkway North, eastbound at Riley Fuzzel Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents across the region are urged to stay home to avoid a potentially dangerous situation, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-weather\/forecast\/article\/houston-winter-storm-freeze-ice-roads-21313299.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:icy precipitation moves in and temperatures drop;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">icy precipitation moves in and temperatures drop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LIVE UPDATES:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-weather\/article\/winter-storm-live-updates-houston-21311144.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow the latest on Houston winter storm impacts, power outages and more;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Follow the latest on Houston winter storm impacts, power outages and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough was urging residents to stay off roads as temperatures were dropping Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conditions across the county include freezing rain and sleet. Some areas were experiencing heavy rain downpours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The temps have started falling again and based off last report won&#8217;t go above freezing today. Threats of icing on overpasses and bridges with all of this moisture. Our road crews are out treating the roads as is TxDOT. Highly recommended that you avoid traveling on the roads,&#8221; Keough said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Keough said he would provide more information about the weather and conditions following a briefing with officials at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures and spots where ice was reported on roads<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interstate 45 Northbound and Southbound at Texas 242 Left Interchange Ramp, Right Interchange Ramp<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas 242 Westbound at Interstate 45<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas 288 all main lanes Northbound Between Clear Creek\/Harris-Brazoria County Line to Wheeler<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas 288 all main lanes Southbound Between Wheeler to Clear Creek\/Harris-Brazoria County Line<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Texas 99\u00a0Lanier\/Grand Parkway North Eastbound At Riley\u00a0Fuzzel Road\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">9800 block of Jones Rd<br \/>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 8440 block of West Sam Houston Tollway North<br \/>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0Texas 288 at Interstate\u00a059<br \/>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a015000 block of Texas 99 main lanes east and westbound\u00a0of Telge Road<br \/>\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0Texas 99 at Cypress Rosehill<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-weather\/article\/houston-road-conditions-ice-21313109.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ice reported on Houston roads as Texas winter storm hits the region;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ice reported on Houston roads as Texas winter storm hits the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ice was already forming on some Houston freeways as the Texas winter storm has arrived in Houston on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43184,56,58,57,1829,58370,27,12398],"class_list":{"0":"post-137760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-county-line","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-ice","13":"tag-mark-keough","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-winter-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137760","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=137760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}