{"id":424863,"date":"2026-09-03T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424863\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:08:09","slug":"fall-has-arrived-any-heat-relief-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424863\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall has arrived, any heat relief in sight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Well, we\u2019ve finally made it! Fall has arrived!<\/a> That means everyone else who lives to the north of Dallas will start to see the beautiful colors of the leaves falling off the trees in glorious shades of red, orange, yellow, and browns. What do we get? How about more triple-digit heat? Sunshine? A tropical system? When is it finally our turn?<\/p>\n

If you want to move out of Texas right now, I can\u2019t really blame you. We\u2019ve had 19 days in a row now where the temperature has been at or above 100 degrees. In case you were keeping track like we were, that is the sixth-longest such streak in Austin\u2019s history. I\u2019ve got more triple digits in the forecast, as much as I hate to say it. Is there a silver lining here somewhere? Maybe.<\/p>\n

In the grand scheme of things, we\u2019re unfortunately well above average with temps, but it honestly wasn\u2019t a terrible start to the summer. Highs were at or even slightly below average to start June and July; it\u2019s just that August has been the worst, with only 2 out of the 31 days outside of triple digits. To put it into perspective, the total for the year was 35. Which means only 4 days outside of August have hit the triple digits.<\/p>\n

But we might be out of the woods soon. If we use the law of averages, our average high temperature dips below 90 degrees for the first time since spring on September 24th! Does that mean we will finally see the trees turn red, orange, and yellow? Probably not. But our triple-digit streak has to end sometime, right? Right?<\/p>\n

The odds are pretty good that we break this streak, if not by the end of this weekend, then definitely by the start of next weekend. On average, we start to see more cold fronts and less stubborn heat domes by the end of this month. While we do have record highs that are in the 100s, we actually have record highs later this month where Austin has never hit the triple digits, such as September 17th, when the record high is 99.<\/p>\n

Usually, we don\u2019t start to get a noticeable drop in temperature until cold fronts start to make a real difference, typically by mid-October. And keep in mind, we\u2019re heading into one of the strongest El Ni\u00f1os on record, so this could lead to an even rainier fall and winter ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Well, we\u2019ve finally made it! Fall has arrived! That means everyone else who lives to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-424863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424863","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=424863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}