{"id":186124,"date":"2026-03-02T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/186124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:15:12","slug":"houston-weather-sunny-and-warm-for-first-day-of-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/186124\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Sunny and warm for first day of rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officially kicks off this Monday under fantastic weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>   Nice for the start of the rodeo <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Monday will be mostly sunny with a high in the low 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Riley Green takes the Star Stage on Monday night and temperatures will be hanging onto the upper 60s by the time the concert ends.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/concert_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  Rain could return late week <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Looking further ahead into the upcoming week, scattered showers could return by mid-week, and some thunderstorms could returns late next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The highest chances for severe weather appear to be headed for North Texas, but we&#8217;ll keep an eye out for any changes.<\/p>\n<p>  Blood moon lunar eclipse today <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Houston skywatchers are in for a rare celestial treat this Tuesday morning, as a total lunar eclipse\u2014often called a &#8220;Blood Moon&#8221;\u2014takes center stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The spectacle begins with a partial phase at 3:50 a.m., but the highlight will be totality, when the moon takes on a deep coppery red hue from 5:04 a.m. to 6:02 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gemini_generated_image_755l8w755l8w755l_720.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">For the best views, look toward the western horizon around the eclipse&#8217;s peak at 5:33 a.m., just before the moon sets and the sun begins to rise. This event is particularly significant as it is the last total lunar eclipse visible from Houston until New Year&#8217;s Eve in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gemini_generated_image_2gxssg2gxssg2gxs_720.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  7-Day Forecast <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sunday_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/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-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officially kicks off this Monday under fantastic weather conditions. Nice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":["post-186124","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\/186124","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=186124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}