{"id":162547,"date":"2026-02-13T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:08:36","slug":"houston-weather-another-sunny-day-before-rainy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162547\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Another sunny day before rainy Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/zxk0yrnkamln31ju.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Feb. 12 evening forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Spring-like temperatures will help set the stage for strong to severe storms and heavy rain Saturday as a stronger system rolls in.<\/p>\n<p>   Severe threat increasing Saturday <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Houston has been placed under a Low 1 out of 5 risk for severe storms Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The main window for the strongest storms appears to be 8pm Saturday until 2am Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Damaging winds near 60\u201370 mph will be the main threat, although an isolated,\u00a0brief tornado can&#8217;t be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/slot2_36732__720.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Impacts to Valentine&#8217;s, Mardi Gras plans <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">There will be a high chance of showers much of Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon for Mardi Gras in Galveston and Valentine&#8217;s plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The threat of storms increases on Saturday night, especially between 8 PM and midnight for Houston, and 10 PM and 2 AM for Galveston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Mardi Gras parades, concerts and parties could be impacted.\u00a0So plan on delays and make sure to have a way to get alerts in case you need to get inside quickly.<\/p>\n<p>  Crisp, clear afterwards <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Behind the front, cooler and much drier air settles in. Expect crisp mornings and clear, pleasant afternoons beginning Sunday and carrying into early next week \u2014 a refreshing return to more comfortable conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Your Gulf Coast Weather Authority<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Spring-like temperatures will help set the stage for strong to severe storms and heavy rain Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":["post-162547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162547","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=162547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}