{"id":199308,"date":"2026-03-11T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199308\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:28:11","slug":"houston-weather-cold-front-brings-chance-of-strong-storms-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199308\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Cold front brings chance of strong storms Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/yf0ms2nmvbfo2jp8.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms possible in Houston Wednesday: Forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-4aywaaio2i29pue5\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strong storms possible in Houston Wednesday: Forecast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">A strong cold front will pass through Southeast Texas Wednesday afternoon bringing a chance for strong or severe thunderstorms. Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are possible, but damaging wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall are the greatest concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A strong cold front will pass through Southeast Texas on Wednesday afternoon, bringing a chance for strong or severe thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are possible, but damaging wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall are the greatest concerns.<\/p>\n<p> Stay aware Wednesday afternoon  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/qpf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Around lunchtime on Wednesday, the line of storms associated with the cold front should begin to get better organized and will provide better timing of the afternoon storms.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Stay connected to FOX 26 and check in to see how these could impact you.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/futurecast.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Chilly nights late week <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tuesday.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Behind the front, Thursday and Friday will feature noticeably cooler and drier air with lows in the 50s and even some 40s on Friday morning. Days will be sunny with low humidity and pleasant temps. High temperatures begin to rebound heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the FOX 26 Weather Team.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong storms possible in Houston Wednesday: Forecast A strong cold front will pass through Southeast Texas Wednesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,2053,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-199308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199308","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=199308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}