{"id":254078,"date":"2026-04-17T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:02:42","slug":"big-temperature-drop-headed-to-austin-whats-the-timing-of-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254078\/","title":{"rendered":"Big temperature drop headed to Austin. What’s the timing of the front?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two summer-like days in Central Texas, get ready for a little weather whiplash this weekend. A strong cold front is set to sweep across the state<\/a>, sending temperatures tumbling more than 30 degrees in just 24 hours, which will make us search for our jackets by Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday will start off muggy, cloudy and warm, with morning temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s. Winds will be light early but pick up through the afternoon as clouds thin, leading to a partly cloudy sky. Highs will climb to near 90 degrees along the Interstate 35 corridor, about 10 degrees above the mid-April average and more typical of late May in the Austin area.<\/p>\n

A well-advertised trough of low pressure and its associated cold front will move across the Central Plains on Friday, reaching Texas by Friday night. The front is expected to arrive in the Hill Country by Saturday morning and push through the rest of Central Texas by Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

This will be one of those days where the high temperature happens in the morning, followed by much cooler and windy conditions in the afternoon, cool enough to need a jacket.\u00a0Keep that in mind if you are heading to the\u00a0Reggae Festival in downtown Austin <\/a>or taking the drive out to last weekend of the Sherwood Forest Faire<\/a>\u00a0in McDade.<\/p>\n

While the biggest story will be the significant temperature drop, we\u2019ll also see scattered showers and a few thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith deep moisture in place, scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop on Saturday in a favorable environment for instances of locally heavy rainfall,\u201d meteorologists from the Austin and San Antonio National Weather Service wrote in their weather bulletin on Thursday. \u201cWeather Prediction Center continues to highlight a good portion of our area in a level 1 of 4 for excessive rainfall.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll keep a small rain chance (30%) in the forecast Sunday, although the best chances will be south and west of Austin. Temperatures will remain cool, with morning lows in the 50s and afternoon highs in the upper 60s to low 70s.<\/p>\n

Behind the cold front, a series of disturbances will move into Texas from the west-southwest, keeping rain and storm chances in the forecast through early next week. No severe weather is expected, but pockets of heavy rain are possible with stronger thunderstorms.<\/p>\n

The weekend cooldown will linger for a few days before a warming trend occurs by the middle of next week,\u00a0with high temperatures climbing back into the 80s by Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two summer-like days in Central Texas, get ready for a little weather whiplash this weekend. A strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-254078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}