Austin Wednesday Forecast Warms Back Up: A High Near 82, With Showers and a 27 Percent Rain Chance
Tonight's live feed has lifted Wednesday's high to 81.8 degrees - several degrees warmer than the outlook carried earlier Tuesday - while keeping rain showers in the day, ahead of a cooler Thursday and a warm Halloween Saturday.
Austin's Wednesday has warmed back up. The station's live Open-Meteo feed on Tuesday night put Wednesday's high at 81.8 degrees with rain showers (weather code 81) and a 27 percent precipitation chance, and a low of 63.2 - several degrees warmer than the cooler outlook the station carried earlier in the day, when Wednesday's high was expected to stay in the 70s. The shower chance, at least, has held steady: it was 28 percent in the evening file and stands at 27 percent tonight.
Tuesday itself finished clear and mild. At the time of this file the feed read 71.5 degrees under clear skies, on a day that reached 83.1 and will bottom out at 63.3, with precipitation at 1 percent - the calm before Wednesday's showers move through.
The rest of the week keeps the pattern unsettled without turning cold. Thursday runs 78.6 degrees with a 16 percent chance, Friday cools to 73.7 with a 21 percent chance, and Halloween Saturday warms back to 85.5 degrees with a 21 percent chance and light drizzle codes in the feed - dry enough, on tonight's numbers, for both the Texas-Mississippi State crowd at Darrell K Royal Stadium and the trick-or-treat routes, with a jacket-worthy low of 68.5 by comparison only with the afternoon. Sunday reaches 88.4 (7 percent) and Monday 91.1 (26 percent).
The practical read for Wednesday: keep the umbrella, skip the heavy layer. A near-82 high with passing showers is a warm, damp Austin day - and the week's real cool-down, such as it is, waits until Friday.
