Austin Weather Wednesday: 62.9 Degrees and Overcast Overnight, Then 76.6 Wednesday and a Clear 77.6 Thursday
Austin sits under a solid overcast at 62.9 degrees in the overnight hours. Wednesday tops out at 76.6 with almost no rain chance, Thursday turns clear and reaches 77.6, and the week's only real rain signal waits for the weekend.
AUSTIN — The overcast that settled over Austin on Tuesday is holding through the overnight hours, with the station's live Open-Meteo feed reading 62.9 degrees and a feels-like of 66 under weather code 3 — a fully clouded sky — in the early hours of Wednesday. The day's rain chance is just 1 percent, and the low bottoms out at 59.3.
Wednesday warms to 76.6 under the clouds before the pattern opens up. Thursday is the week's clearest day, code 0 with a high of 77.6 and a low of 54.8, and Friday stays warm and dry at 78.3 with a low of 62.7 and no rain chance in the feed.
The weekend is where the moisture sits. Saturday turns to rain showers (code 81) with a high of 66.9, a low of 57.4 and a 27 percent precipitation chance, and Sunday carries the week's highest rain signal — drizzle (code 51), a high of 63.1 and a 52 percent chance. Monday cools further to 64.1 under an overcast with a 30 percent chance, and next Tuesday reads 64.0 with the chance back down to 1 percent.
For Austin, the shape of the week is simple: two warm, dry days to finish the workweek, a cooler and wetter weekend, and a mild start to next week. Anyone with outdoor plans gets Wednesday through Friday; Saturday and Sunday call for a rain plan.
