Friday will be hot, humid, and mostly sunny, especially by the afternoon. Morning temperatures will be in the middle and upper 70s, while afternoon temps will reach 100 degrees but feel like 104 with the humidity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Temperature records will be in jeopardy<\/a> Friday, with likely readings at Austin’s weather stations (Camp Mabry and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport) approaching daily records set in 2019. The record high is 100 degrees at the airport and 101 degrees at Mabry.<\/p>\n The upper-level ridge of high air pressure centered between northeast Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley will remain in that general area on Friday and then shift westward a bit to include more of Central Texas. \u00a0<\/p>\n This will shut off our rain chances for the weekend and keep the summer heat around all the way through the last day of astronomical summer on Monday.<\/p>\n Luckily, we do have some changes in the weather pattern early next week as the high pressure weakens and a cold front moves across the southern Plains at the beginning of the work week, eventually stalling in North Texas.<\/p>\n As this happens, we\u2019ll need to keep an eye on the Gulf of Mexico, where an area of low pressure will meander along the coastal states, bringing rain to those areas and possibly to the upper Texas coast.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Monday through Wednesday, the local area stays between an upper-level low to the west and another one to the right,\u201d meteorologists at the regional National Weather Service office wrote<\/a> in a forecast Thursday. \u201cThis scenario could bring showers and storms each afternoon to the Coastal Plains and portions of the Southern Edwards Plateau.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re still several days out from this forecast period, so plenty of uncertainty remains. Keep in mind that even if we do see rain, it will likely be limited and very isolated next week.<\/p>\n So far this month, Austin hasn\u2019t recorded any measurable rainfall at either Camp Mabry or the airport. We would typically have about 2 inches of rain by this point in September, so the rainfall deficit from normal continues to grow.<\/p>\n