Today’s cold front is likely to bring a miniscule temperature drop Wednesday

Technically, a fall cold front is pushing through today because, well, it’s fall and a cold front will arrive. For a true fall cold front though? You’re gonna have to wait for at least a week and maybe even longer. The front could spark some rain, but we’re grasping at straws here with no heavy or widespread precipitation expected.

With the front on approach, today’s morning temperatures are starting out, well, HOT for this time of the year. Our average low is near 60° and we’ll start mostly in the upper 60s and lower 70s with a few stray mid-70s possible too! Despite the hotter start to the day today, temperatures this afternoon are going to be about the same as they were yesterday afternoon. Highs this afternoon will warm into the lower 90s with heat index values still in the mid-90s! Expect a few fair weather cumulus clouds with a stray few showers possible anywhere in Central Texas as the front oozes through. Today’s rain chances are near 20% with the most likely chances between 1 PM and 7 PM. Don’t expect the rain to last terribly long in any one location; these are very much quick splash-and-dash style showers.

Today’s front will move all the way through Central Texas a little after sunset, but the cool air really doesn’t arrive at all. We will be cooler tomorrow morning, but it’ll still be hotter than average as we kick off the morning in the mid-to-upper 60s. Despite the front moving through, temperatures will STILL be in the upper 80s and lower 90s Wednesday afternoon. There will be a push of dry air arriving Wednesday night that will actually cause temperatures to change, but we’ll largely feel the changes during the morning hours. Thursday’s morning temperatures starting out in the mid-60s will warm into the mid-to-upper 80s late-day. For Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, temperatures will start out in the upper 50s and lower 60s and it will feel quite seasonable in the morning. In the afternoon, however, high temperatures will climb back into the mid-to-upper 80s with a few lower 90s returning this weekend too.

I’ve been sounding the bell about a more notable temperature drop that could be on the way late next week for a while now. Well, the cooler air is going to be moving into Four Corners and Big Sky Country mid-week next week, but the chances that the push of cooler air arrives is slipping. We don’t have cooler air in the forecast through next Thursday, but, again, there is some hope for next weekend to feature a cold front. With those cold front chances slipping, we might have to wait

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