{"id":421421,"date":"2026-08-31T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421421\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:20:10","slug":"another-hot-day-for-the-south-plains-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421421\/","title":{"rendered":"Another hot day for the South Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Another hot day for the South Plains with a high of 98 degrees in Lubbock, the average should be 90 degrees. At least we didn\u2019t threaten the record of 104 degrees in another very dry and hot year 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Another hot day for the South Plains\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788139209_592_WL2RJZCOJBESVBTQWXLU4GX5VQ.JPG\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Another hot day for the South Plains(John Robison | John Robbinson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">I do expect slight relief the next couple of days, but we\u2019ll still be in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The persistent upper-level high pressure will drift east and weaken and its grip on us through mid-week. So Monday and Tuesday will drop a couple of degrees before afternoon maximums return to a range of 96-99 degrees into the coming Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Another hot day for the South Plains\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788139210_803_JCGIBMSM2RFFBMTKT4OHEIP4YI.JPG\" width=\"980\" height=\"542\" \/>Another hot day for the South Plains(John Robison | John Robinson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There\u2019s a slight chance for a few showers or storms by Saturday, but chances are slim as of tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It appears that the mid-90s may likely remain with us, under sunny skies through Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Another hot day for the South Plains with a high of 98 degrees in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21501,168,170,169,146672,144611],"class_list":["post-421421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-john-robison","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-robison","tag-weather-forcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421421","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=421421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}