{"id":341398,"date":"2026-06-18T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:38:09","slug":"steamy-weather-moves-into-houston-in-wake-of-tropical-storm-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341398\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamy weather moves into Houston in wake of tropical storm \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/weather\/2023\/07\/17\/457082\/houston-first-heat-related-death-2023\/attachment\/heat-illness-lessons-learned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP23188629346933-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Heat Wave\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Eric Gay, File<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Kayak and canoe outfitter Jessie Fuentes walks along the Rio Grande under a warm sun Thursday, July 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>After several days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/weather\/2026\/06\/15\/554550\/weather-houston-flood-watch-rain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rainy weather<\/a>, the Houston region faces steamy, summerlike conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A heat advisory has been issued for the Houston and Galveston area between 11 a.m. Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday. Expected heat indices between 107 and 114 degrees Fahrenheit, or 41-46 degrees Celsius, are being driven by humidity, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Bradley Brokamp. He said Thursday morning that a moist air mass remains in the region after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/local\/galveston\/2026\/06\/16\/554721\/tropical-storm-watch-galveston-weather-texas-flood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Storm Arthur<\/a> formed along the Texas coast Wednesday and dissipated several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Brokamp said conditions Thursday and Friday are expected to be \u201cmore akin to how it would feel deep in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we&#8217;ve been advising everyone to do is just make sure they\u2019re staying hydrated,\u201d he said. \u201cLimit time outdoors. Take some time to cool off indoors. Try to wear light-colored, lightweight clothes if you spend some time outdoors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily high temperatures in the low- to mid-90s are forecasted through the weekend, according to the weather service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hgx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston\/Galveston office<\/a>. But because of the humidity, the heat indices, or feels-like temperatures, will be several degrees higher.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/sports\/world-cup\/2026\/06\/16\/554699\/houston-world-cup-fan-fest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thousands of soccer fans are in Houston for the World Cup. Here are some of their stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That figures to impact soccer fans planning to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/sports\/world-cup\/2026\/05\/29\/553252\/fifa-fan-festival-houston-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA Fan Festival<\/a>, a free outdoor event in East Downtown that\u2019s held in conjunction with World Cup matches. Houston hosts a World Cup match between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/sports\/world-cup\/2026\/05\/19\/552364\/dutch-soccer-team-fans-plan-massive-march-in-houston-ahead-of-world-cup-match\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> and Sweden at noon Saturday at NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>There also are several outdoor events planned in the Houston and Galveston areas for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/events\/2026\/06\/16\/554631\/houston-juneteenth-events-galveston-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juneteenth<\/a>, which is Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get a little bit more of a reprieve over the weekend, but it&#8217;ll still be pretty warm,\u201d Brokamp said. \u201cIt&#8217;s going to be triple-digit heat indices all through the seven-day forecast for the most part. We don\u2019t really get much in the way of rain chances either. &#8230; It&#8217;s just going to be generally warm and hot over the next several days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houston Public Media\u2019s Matt Harab contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Eric Gay, File FILE \u2013 Kayak and canoe outfitter Jessie Fuentes walks along the Rio Grande under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20313,7216,121048,12276,56,58,12073,57,7094,7218,66,1971,223,172],"class_list":["post-341398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-galveston","tag-galveston-weather","tag-heat-advisory","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-heat","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-weather","tag-juneteenth","tag-local","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341398","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=341398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}