Austin Evening Weather: 74 and Clear at the Close, Saturday Overcast at 67 — and Sunday's Rain Holds at 69 Percent

Austin's Friday is closing warm and clear. The station's live Open-Meteo feed, read at about 5:10 p.m., puts the city at 73.8 degrees and clear, feeling like 71.4, with precipitation at 1 percent — and Friday's high on the feed finished at 74.8, above the 73.5 the late-afternoon file carried and well above the morning's near-72. The low tonight is 56.9 under overcast skies, a mild dry evening for the Food & Wine Festival's opening night at Auditorium Shores and the Friday-night football finales.

Saturday has eased a little more. The feed carries overcast (code 3) with a high of 67.0, a low of 56.2 and precipitation at 41 percent — down from 43 percent at mid-afternoon. It reads as a grey, cool parade morning for the Veterans Parade on Congress Avenue rather than a wet one on the current numbers, though the chance of rain never leaves the day.

Sunday is still where the weekend rain sits. The feed carries rain (code 63) with a high of just 60.7 — the coolest high in the seven-day run — a low of 56.9 and precipitation at 69 percent, unchanged from the afternoon files and the highest figure of the week. Sunday-morning plans, including the Run For The Water start on Cesar Chavez, should be made for a real chance of rain.

Behind the weekend, Monday stays damp with drizzle (code 51), a high of 64.0 and precipitation at 49 percent, before the pattern dries and warms through the week: Tuesday reaches 74.6 with drizzle chances at 21 percent, Wednesday 72.3 at 16 percent, and Thursday 77.4 at just 6 percent. This is the Weather Desk's standing 17:00 evening file; it records the feed as read this evening, after a day in which Friday's high was revised up three times.