{"id":365324,"date":"2026-07-08T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365324\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:57:13","slug":"houston-weather-blazing-wednesday-chance-of-afternoon-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365324\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Blazing Wednesday, chance of afternoon storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p1pz5w569wdj8c2e.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Hot Wednesday with scattered storms\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/p1pz5w569wdj8c2e.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Hot Wednesday with scattered storms\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-62bd84fd=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; It&#8217;s going to be another hot Wednesday with heat index values in the triple digits. Expect some scattered afternoon storms to provide some possible heat relief.<\/p>\n<p>   Hot with afternoon storms <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Highs climb into the mid 90s today with heat index values reaching the triple digits. Scattered afternoon storms are possible with brief downpours, lightning and gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>  Hotter Thursday <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Thursday brings another round of July heat with highs in the mid to upper 90s. Rain coverage looks lower, giving temperatures more room to climb during the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> Tropical moisture returns <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A tropical plume pushes deeper moisture into Southeast Texas by Friday and the weekend. Rain chances increase with scattered showers and storms becoming more common Saturday and Sunday.<\/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-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; It&#8217;s going to be another hot Wednesday with heat index values in the triple digits. Expect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":["post-365324","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\/365324","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=365324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}