{"id":95465,"date":"2025-12-20T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95465\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:32:10","slug":"houston-weather-warming-up-through-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95465\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston weather: Warming up through Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6b8a9h957lt91vyl.jpg\" alt=\"Houston weather: Dec. 20 morning forecast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; We are already significantly warmer than we were by this time yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>   Wild weather Saturday <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Temperatures this morning are in the 50s but by the afternoon we will see a rise to the upper 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Unfortunately, the warming trend will continue through the holidays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Winds will be strong this afternoon, gusting into the 20s across the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Tomorrow is the first day of winter, but it certainly does not feel like it.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sat22__1__720.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Moisture and temperatures increase <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This weekend and through Christmas week, afternoon temperatures climb well above average, into the 70s and 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">There&#8217;s also a noticeable increase in humidity and high temperatures close to records for several days leading into Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Isolated scattered rain chances are mainly limited to Sunday and Monday with a few light showers possible Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">We&#8217;ll also watch out for a daily round of fog to start off our mornings.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sat44__1__720.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Christmas and New Year&#8217;s outlook <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Forecast guidance continues to favor very warm weather through Christmas and the weekend that follows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">However, the newest model trends suggest a possible shift toward cooler, even chilly conditions closer to New Year\u2019s. Confidence is a bit lower that far out, but it is something worth watching as we head toward the end of the year.\u00a0<\/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-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; We are already significantly warmer than we were by this time yesterday. Wild weather Saturday Temperatures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-95465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95465","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=95465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}