AUSTIN, Texas — You wouldn't know it based on our weather, but it's officially fall! Austin kicked off the fall season with a high of 98 degrees Sunday afternoon, but we're looking ahead to a slight cooldown and some rain chances for the upcoming week. A cold front pushed through the Texas panhandle Sunday, and it will stall Monday over Central Texas.
This front won't bring much, if any, rain Monday, but it will knock a few degrees off our afternoon temperatures with a high near 93 degrees. We will leave a 10 to 20 percent rain chance in our forecast. Monday. Behind this first front, we're tracking an upper level disturbance on Tuesday that will interact with the lingering boundary to generate a 30 percent chance for storms. Finally, another cold front arrives on Wednesday with another chance for scattered showers and storms. Not everyone will see rain this week, but we have at least small rain chances each day through Wednesday.
Behind our second surge of "cooler air," high temperatures will drop into the upper 80s and low 90s for the back half of this week into the beginning of the weekend. After Wednesday, the rest of our extended forecast is dry. A landfalling tropical system well to our east will help to keep a northerly flow and lower humidity in our forecast, but it will otherwise have no direct impacts on Texas.