Texans like to say that the state has a few different seasons. As the joke goes, among those seasons are summer, false fall, second summer and then later — much later — actual fall.
MySA asked locals how they know autumn has officially come in San Antonio, because in the Alamo City, the calendar on the wall doesn’t mean much when we’re still clocking triple-digit temperatures well into September. So disregard the pumpkin spice lattes and suspiciously early Christmas decor on store shelves — here’s how San Antonio rings in the fall.
Commenters under a MySA Instagram post and in a Reddit thread shared a checklist of signs. According to locals, you can tell it’s fall in San Antonio when:
The first day of fall (officially) rolls around on Tuesday, September 22. Though the days ahead spell warm temperatures for at least a little while longer, predictions call for the first strong cold front of the season to come by the end of the month.
The National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio office has said that “September in South-Central Texas typically brings early fall cold fronts, cooling highs from the mid-90s to upper 80s and lows into the mid-60s,” so there’s that to look forward to. CBS Austin meteorologist Avery Tomasco wrote on Facebook that Texas could (emphasis on “could”) see a cool-down around September 21— but “don’t hold me to it. I’m being reckless.”