{"id":420975,"date":"2026-08-30T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:46:17","slug":"houston-weather-weekend-heat-continues-rain-potential-next-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420975\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Weekend heat continues; rain potential next week"},"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\">Hot and humid weekend ahead<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isolated rain chances continue<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tropics heating up as we near the peak of hurricane season<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HOUSTON &#8211; The weekend stays steamy, with highs in the upper 90s and heat index values above 100\u00b0. Afternoon highs will be well above our seasonal average of 93 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated storms possible<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Isolated showers and storms are possible, especially closer to the coast, but most of the weekend looks rain-free.\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\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/1514beb62466631f807c1c420b4e281e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At this time, we won&#8217;t rule out a brief heavy downpour or lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p>Two areas to watch in the tropics<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\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/53153d3b545188c0b9d7cd2dbefdf922.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We are monitoring an area of low pressure in the north-central Gulf. It will drift westward over the next few days.\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\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kriv_fox_local_articles_563\/48b3cc78c21341a14d27071a299628be.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston will be watching this closely as we could see an increase in showers and storms by Tuesday.<\/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 Hot and humid weekend ahead Isolated rain chances continue Tropics heating up as we near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26439,146588,146587,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-420975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-26439","tag-93-degrees","tag-afternoon","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420975","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=420975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}