Austin Afternoon Weather: 68 and Clear, Friday High Near 72 — Saturday Rain Chances Rise to 44 Percent, Sunday Peaks at 62
The live feed at mid-afternoon reads 67.7 degrees and clear over Austin. Friday stays dry at 71.5, rain builds Saturday at 44 percent, Sunday is the wettest and coolest day of the week at 61.2 with rain at 62 percent, and drizzle lingers into Monday before a warm-up.
Austin's Friday afternoon is the calm before the weekend rain. The station's live Open-Meteo feed, read at about 1:05 p.m., puts the city at 67.7 degrees and clear, feeling like 66.1, with precipitation at 1 percent. Friday's high on the feed is 71.5 with a low of 56.9 under overcast skies — a dry finish to the week for the Food & Wine Festival's opening night and the Friday-night football slate.
Saturday turns: the feed carries rain (code 65) with a high of 69.6, a low of 55.8 and a 44 percent precipitation chance — up from the 40 percent the midday file carried, with a cooler low than that file's 58.4. Sunday is the week's wettest and coolest day: rain (code 63), a high of just 61.2, a low of 58.4 and precipitation at 62 percent. Anyone with outdoor plans at Auditorium Shores on Sunday should plan for rain, not around it.
The rain does not clear all at once. Monday stays grey with drizzle (code 51), a high of 64.0 and precipitation at 56 percent, before Tuesday warms back to 74.6 with drizzle chances falling to 18 percent. Wednesday reads 72.3 with precipitation at 11 percent, and Thursday reaches 77.4 at 6 percent — the warm, dry end of the seven-day feed.
The feed's figures have moved since the midday file, and this update says so rather than overwriting silently: the current temperature is up nearly four degrees, Saturday's rain chance is up four points, and Sunday's high is down a degree and a half. The standing evening weather file follows at 17:00.
