{"id":421143,"date":"2026-08-30T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421143\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:00:13","slug":"houston-weather-gulf-activity-raising-rain-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421143\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Gulf activity raising rain chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rnco2svhsv042qs4.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Aug 30 morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rnco2svhsv042qs4.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Aug 30 morning forecast\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-9p7vrm4dqjog80rp\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston weather: Aug 30 morning forecast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">We are monitoring an area of low pressure in the north-central Gulf. Houston will be watching this closely as we will likely see an increase in showers and storms by Tuesday\/ Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; We&#8217;re monitoring some activity in the Gulf that could bring some heavy rain in the new week.<\/p>\n<p>   Hot weekend ahead <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The weekend stays steamy, with highs in the upper 90s and heat index values above 100\u00b0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Afternoon highs will be well above our seasonal average of 93 degrees.<\/p>\n<p> Isolated storms possible <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Isolated showers and storms are possible, especially closer to the coast, but most of the weekend looks rain-free.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At this time, we won&#8217;t rule out a brief heavy downpour or lightning strike.<\/p>\n<p> Low pressure in the Gulf <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">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 data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston will be watching this closely as we will likely see an increase in showers and storms by Tuesday\/ Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_3973.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The NHC is calling this Invest 97-L and is giving it a 30% for development over the next few days. Regardless of if it becomes a named storm or not, we will likely get heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/weather\/invest-97l-gulf-among-2-tropical-disturbances-being-tracked-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Invest 97L in Gulf among 2 tropical disturbances being tracked this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  7-Day Forecast <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_3974.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/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 weather: Aug 30 morning forecast We are monitoring an area of low pressure in the north-central Gulf.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":["post-421143","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\/421143","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=421143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}