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Austin weather: Big changes ahead for weekend
A warm day today and then temperatures will drop. How cold will it get? Zack Shields has all the details in his full forecast.
AUSTIN, Texas - Warm temperatures today before a late-season cold front with a bite coming to town.
Timeline:
The front will arrive between 7 and 9am Saturday.
Not much rain when the front charges in but it will turn cooler and windy.
Temperatures will start in the 70s and by the end of the day we are in the 50s and feeling cooler than that with the wind gusts of 20 to 30 mph.
A Western low will glide over the chilly air mass and provide enough lift in the atmosphere to increase the coverage of rain from mid-Saturday afternoon to sunrise on Sunday.
Why you should care:
Rain totals won't be as much as last weekend and will stay around a third to three quarters of an inch.
The severe weather risk will remain very low since most of the storms will happen after the front pushes through.
Get ready for a temperature whiplash with highs and lows staying below average through early next week.
This active weather pattern is here to stay it looks like for the rest of the month.
The Climate Prediction Center is keeping the area wetter than average as storm systems arrive every two or three days.
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The Source: Information from meteorologist Zack Shields.