AUSTIN, Texas — You wouldn't know it based on our weather, but it is 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 has been pushing through the Texas panhandle on Sunday, and it will stall over Central Texas on Monday.
This front won't bring much if any rain rain for Sunday night or Monday, but it will knock a few degrees off our afternoon temperatures with a high near 93 on Monday. Behind this first front, we're tracking another push of cool air that arrives late Tuesday into Wednesday. This will bring scattered storms to our forecast with the best opportunity for rain coming late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. As of now the rain chance is around 40 percent, so not everyone will get rain, but where storms develop they could produce some locally 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 to well to our east will help to keep a northerly flow and lower humidity in our forecast, but will otherwise have no direct impacts on Texas.