{"id":275032,"date":"2026-05-01T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275032\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:37:12","slug":"rain-drenches-houston-area-as-weather-service-warns-of-potential-flooding-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275032\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain drenches Houston area as weather service warns of potential flooding \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heavy rain falls in Downtown Houston on May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Provided\/ Alexa Bussmann)<\/p>\n

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Rain falls across Houston on May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Provided)<\/p>\n

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Houston experienced heavy rain on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Kyle McClenagan\/HPM)<\/p>\n

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Rain water begins to collect at Elizabeth Baldwin Park in Hosuton on Friday, May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Andrew Schneider\/HPM)<\/p>\n

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Rain falls on Westheimer Road in Houston on May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Michael Adkison\/HPM)<\/p>\n

The rain that\u2019s soaking the Houston area is expected to continue falling across the region Friday as the National Weather Service warns of potential flooding<\/a> in some low-lying areas. <\/p>\n

The region is under a flood watch until 4 a.m. Saturday. Jimmy Fowler, a meteorologist at the weather service’s Houston-Galveston office<\/a>, said Friday morning that 2-4 inches of rainfall is expected, with up to 4-6 inches in isolated locations. <\/p>\n

Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n

“We have pretty widespread rainfall occurring along and north of I-10 this morning,” Fowler said. “We’re going to see continued kind of widespread showers and thunderstorm activity through this evening until late tonight.” <\/p>\n

Rain should leave the area by Saturday, when the weather service forecasts partly sunny skies and high temperatures approaching the mid-70s. <\/p>\n

Despite continual rain Friday, the region was experiencing minimal impacts as of the early afternoon. <\/p>\n

CenterPoint Energy<\/a>, which supplies electricity to much of the region, was reporting more than 6,000 customers without power as of 2:30 p.m. Houston TranStar<\/a> was reporting no high water locations on roadways as of approximately 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s Bush Intercontinental Airport, after being under a ground stop at one point Friday, was experiencing average ground delays of nearly 2 hours as of about 2:30 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Delays were minimal at Hobby Airport in the south part of the city, where there also was a ground stop earlier in the day. <\/p>\n

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Rainwater collects near a fence in Houston on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

Rainfall throughout the month of April has brought nearly all of Harris County out of \u201cmoderate drought\u201d conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.<\/p>\n

On March 31, the U.S. Drought Monitor map had all of Harris County under moderate drought conditions<\/a>. However, as of Thursday, the map showed that 7.9% of the county was still classified under that category.<\/p>\n

Statewide, 75% of Texas was still considered to be in a moderate drought. That\u2019s down several percentage points from 89% in late March.<\/p>\n

In April, Houston received more than 5 inches of rain, which Cameron Batiste of the National Weather Service said was about an inch-and-a-half above normal for the month.<\/p>\n

Houston Public Media’s Matthew Harab contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain falls in Downtown Houston on May 1, 2026. (Photo Credit: Provided\/ Alexa Bussmann) Rain falls across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[736,470,56,50708,58,57,38049,7094,973,66,1971,223,840,6208,172],"class_list":["post-275032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-airports","tag-drought","tag-houston","tag-houston-flooding","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rain","tag-houston-weather","tag-infrastructure","tag-local","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275032","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=275032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}