Austin Weather Tuesday 1 P.M.: 65.5 Degrees and Overcast, Two Degrees From the High, With the Warm-Up Starting Wednesday
The clouds are holding Austin in the mid-60s this afternoon - 65.5 degrees at 1 p.m. against a high of 67.8 - before the week's warm-up carries the city to 74.3 on Wednesday and the upper 70s on Thursday and Friday.
AUSTIN - Austin sat at 65.5 degrees under overcast skies (weather code 3) at 1 p.m. Tuesday, feeling like 68.3, with the day's high still ahead at 67.8 and the low behind it at 58.3, according to the station's live Open-Meteo feed. The day's code is 51 - light drizzle - and the precipitation chance has eased to 15 percent.
The 1 p.m. reading continues a slow, steady climb through the day: 59.5 degrees at the 7 a.m. file, 60.8 at 9 a.m. and 62.9 at 11 a.m. The day's expected high has moved as the feed updated - 64.8 on the morning code, 68.1 at 9 a.m., 67.4 at 11 a.m. and 67.8 on the current code - while Wednesday's high has risen from 71.6 on the morning file to 74.3 now.
The warm-up is the week's story from here: Wednesday reaches 74.3 under overcast skies (code 3, low 56.8, precipitation 1 percent), Thursday 78.2 (low 55.4) and Friday 79.2 (low 63.4), both dry on the current code.
The weekend turns: Saturday brings rain showers (code 81) at 74.9 degrees with a 27 percent precipitation chance, Sunday drops to 66.6 with drizzle (code 53) at 38 percent, and Monday cools further to 60.9 with drizzle at 20 percent. The desk updates the file on the next cycle.
