{"id":263705,"date":"2026-04-24T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:02:09","slug":"houston-weather-storm-chances-return-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263705\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Storm chances return Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/go4h4kjqpiszhycx.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Warming trend on the way\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-10b9rt518v62yuw2\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston weather: Warming trend on the way<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Evening storms may impact your Friday plans, but after that, expect a very warm weekend across the Houston area. FOX 26 Meteorologist Remeisha Shade has the latest weather forecast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Ready for another round of storms?<\/p>\n<p>   Storms could return tomorrow <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Rain chances are a bit tricky, but are increasing tomorrow evening as moisture builds and a disturbance zips by to the north of Houston around sunset. Some storms could bring brief lightning and gusty winds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Main window for this quick burst of storms is 7\u201311 pm.\u00a0However, most of the day will be warm and more humid.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slot2_42599__720.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Improvement with drought conditions <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Drought improvement statewide has been minimal from 78% of Texas in drought last week to 76% this week.\u00a0But across Harris county, drought improvement has been significant with 59% of Harris County in some level of drought last week and only 14% of Harris County in drought this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Rainfall from Tuesday and Wednesday hasn&#8217;t even been taken into account for this drought update. So expect even more improvements for next Thursday&#8217;s drought monitor.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/slot0_42601__720.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Muggy weekend setup <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The weekend turns warmer and more humid with highs in the upper 80s. Skies remain partly to mostly cloudy with a few isolated showers or storms possible, especially during the afternoon and evening hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Get ready for a stretch of days in the 90s as we go into next week.\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-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Warming trend on the way Evening storms may impact your Friday plans, but after that, expect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":["post-263705","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\/263705","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=263705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}