Wednesday forecast for Austin: Sunny with a high near 81, winds will kick up to 15 mph as a front moves through the area; mostly clear at night with a low near 55.
Rainy weather and The Mothership
Good morning, Austin! I’ll be your weather blogger for the morning, and Wednesday should be another gorgeous day. But I’d like to beg your patience so I can tell a story about something fairly trivial: myself.
I hail from the Pacific Northwest, but I’ve always suspected I was sent from the Mothership. The rainy, temperate weather I grew up in? Hate it. I suspect this warm-blooded mammalian exterior is actually just a cover for a cold-blooded reptile living inside me, because I’ve always felt more at home in the kind of blast-furnace temperatures for which the Texas capital is famous.
My point: If you’re like me, you’re not going to like the weather the rest of the week. Because we’re looking at damp, rainy weather, with potentially heavy rains as early as Thursday night.
The rainfall that drenched the region last weekend was probably our plunge into the El Nino-related fall of damp, cool weather. Think of the last few days as an aberration. By Thursday afternoon, clouds will once again be gathering over the Central Texas skies (and in my cold reptilian heart). Rain could begin falling late Thursday night or early Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Austin could get anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of rain, according to Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist Bob Rose and KXAN Chief Meteorologist Jim Spencer.
That probably means the “Godzilla El Nino” has finally vanquished its Central Texas arch-foe, the region’s “Flash Drought.”
“And it looks like at least two more storm systems will follow that one over the next two weeks,” Spencer said. “A wetter than normal period looks likely at least through Thanksgiving. If the Climate Prediction Center is correct, wetter and colder than normal weather will continue through winter and much of spring.”
Ugh. Okay, to brighten the mood before months of darkness, I leave you with this observation, courtesy of theweathernetwork.com:
Q: What is a meteorologist’s favorite reptile?
A: A blizzard.
