{"id":355213,"date":"2026-06-30T02:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:49:20","slug":"junes-2026-strawberry-full-moon-will-be-visible-in-houston-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355213\/","title":{"rendered":"June&#8217;s 2026 strawberry full moon will be visible in Houston Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strawberry moon will likely be visible in Houston Monday night, despite lingering haze from Saharan dust.<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cstrawberry moon\u201d comes from American Indian tribes who named the June full moon because i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/space\/article\/strawberry-moon-june-summer-19523263.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">ts appearance meant strawberries were ripe<\/a> or soon to be ripe. The strawberry moon is the lowest-hanging full moon of the year, occurring just over a week after the summer solstice, when the sun is furthest away from the Earth and the moon is closest.<\/p>\n<p>A dense plume of Saharan dust settled in South and Southeast Texas on Monday. It is expected to linger in Houston skies through early Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said they expect the dust plume to drift north from Southeast Texas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the strawberry moon should be easily visible to Houstonians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could see some lingering hazy conditions on Tuesday but the concentration amounts do not look to be as high,\u201d the National Weather service wrote in its forecast discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The strawberry moon is classified as a micromoon. It is the second-smallest full moon of the year, 252,442 miles away from the Earth, according to LiveScience.com.<\/p>\n<p>The moon will reach its peak at 6:56 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strawberry moon will likely be visible in Houston Monday night, despite lingering haze from Saharan dust. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-355213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355213","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=355213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}