{"id":376544,"date":"2026-07-17T06:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376544\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:53:35","slug":"houston-weather-low-friday-rain-chances-before-dry-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376544\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Low Friday rain chances before dry weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isolated Showers Possible Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hotter, Drier Pattern Returns This Weekend<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tropics Heating Up, Two Areas To Watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON &#8211; After several rounds of rain across Southeast Texas, we are finally seeing much lower rain chances to end the week.<\/p>\n<p>Warmer with showers possible Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isolated showers and storms will wrap up this evening but return Friday.\u00a0 Coverage is only around 20%. So expect mainly dry weather Friday with more sunshine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures should climb to the low 90s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hotter, drier pattern to enjoy for the weekend<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/6036774dcc94125b195b0834a6821324.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To end the week, things start to dry out and skies clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Middle to upper 90s return to the forecast to start the upcoming weekend. Feels like temps will also climb above 100 late week and this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As you enjoy your weekend plans outdoors, please remember to drink plenty of water, use sunscreen and take breaks if working or exercising outside.<\/p>\n<p>Tropics coming to life<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Hurricane Center is now watching not one but two possible areas of tropical development in the Atlantic basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first area is in the Northeastern Gulf, with a 20% chance for tropical development over the next week.\u00a0 A brief tropical depression or tropical storm could form near northern Florida on the Gulf side or Atlantic side, impacting places like Tampa and Jacksonville with heavy rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/31c2507e195af3fc1f83b088fc661ac7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A second area of possible tropical development is being monitored in the far east Atlantic, near the Cabo Verde Islands. Chance for development here is very low, around 10%. Saharan dust will likely end chances for development over the coming week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/a7a9f2d5594fac83a416509f880cc1d5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download FOX Local for your daily tropical updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Your Gulf Coast Weather Authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Isolated Showers Possible Friday Hotter, Drier Pattern Returns This Weekend Tropics Heating Up, Two Areas To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,373,119962],"class_list":["post-376544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-rain-chances","tag-tropical-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376544","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=376544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}