Austin Midday Weather: Fog and a High Near 83 on Wednesday, With Storms Building Thursday and Rain Likely Friday
The station's live feed reads 74.9 degrees at midday Wednesday under partly cloudy skies, with fog in Wednesday's code, the week's best storm chances arriving Thursday and Friday — then a dry, warm Halloween weekend.
Austin's midday Wednesday reads mild and gray-green: 74.9 degrees, feeling like 79.6, under partly cloudy skies on the station's live weather feed. The feed codes the rest of Wednesday for fog, with a high near 83, a low near 65 and only a 4 percent chance of rain — the calmest day left in the week.
The pattern turns wetter from Thursday. Thursday runs overcast with a high near 83 and a low near 67, and the rain chance climbs to 25 percent; KXAN's October 28 forecast has rain moving in late Thursday morning, with storms and downpours likely in the Hill Country. Friday is the week's wet day on both reads: the station feed shows rain, a high of only about 72 and a rain chance of 46 percent, and KXAN expects showers and downpours to expand east through the day on Friday.
The weekend then dries out for Halloween. Saturday — Halloween itself — carries a shower code on the station feed with a high near 80 and a 17 percent rain chance, and Sunday turns warm and dry: overcast, a high near 87 and a rain chance of just 2 percent.
The break does not last into next week. The feed shows a thunderstorm code for Monday with a high near 88 and rain chances back at 21 percent, and Tuesday cools to near 77 with rain chances at 38 percent. The Weather Desk will update the file with the 17:00 file as the Thursday storm timing firms up.
