{"id":421157,"date":"2026-08-30T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:26:33","slug":"yes-its-been-hotter-than-normal-lately-but-our-current-streak-of-100-degree-weather-isnt-houstons-longest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421157\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s been hotter than normal lately, but our current streak of 100-degree weather isn&#8217;t Houston&#8217;s longest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 As Houston is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/weather\/forecast\/houston-weather-afternoon-storms-school-pickup\/285-24a556ff-279b-4a54-bcd3-1be1e534ec7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sweating out a hot streak<\/a>, KHOU 11 meteorologist Chita Craft did some number crunching on the city&#8217;s longest stretches of 100-plus-degree weather.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s longest consecutive streak of temperatures 100 degrees or higher came in 2011 with 24 days. Second place is more recent with 23 days in 2023. Here&#8217;s a full breakdown of the top five longest streaks:<\/p>\n<p>After Tuesday, Houston is currently sitting at 6 days of temperatures reaching 100 degrees or higher. It&#8217;s also expected to pass that threshold on Wednesday before rain returns to the forecast on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/weather\/houston-weather-100-degree-day-streak-record\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 As Houston is sweating out a hot streak, KHOU 11 meteorologist Chita Craft did some number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-421157","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\/421157","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=421157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}