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 cool down 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'll knock a few degrees off our afternoon temperatures with a high near 93 degrees. Behind this first front, we're tracking another push of cool air arriving late Tuesday into Wednesday. This will bring scattered storms to our forecast, with the best rain opportunity late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. As of now, the rain chance is around 40%. Not everyone will get rain, but where storms develop, they could produce some heavy amounts.
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.