{"id":461157,"date":"2026-10-09T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:26:07","slug":"texas-weather-sunny-rain-free-skies-for-red-river-rivalry-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461157\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas weather: Sunny, rain-free skies for Red River Rivalry weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday will begin with clear skies, morning temperatures near 70 degrees and light northeast winds of 3 to 8 mph. The day will quickly warm up through the afternoon, with temps reaching 90 degrees as winds turn more easterly at 5 to 10 mph.\u00a0Mainly dry weather will persist through the weekend as a ridge of high atmospheric pressure settles in for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hurricane\u00a0Isaias will be approaching Alabama and Florida from the Gulf of Mexico on Friday before moving inland into the deep South.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend in Austin, though, we can expect warm\u00a0afternoons in the 80s to low 90s and mild mornings in the upper 60s to low 70s \u2014 about 5 to 7 degrees warmer than our early-October normal range of daily temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter another full round of persistent weather Saturday, the pattern upstream of Texas begins to push a weather change over our local area,\u201d meteorologists at the National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=EWX&amp;issuedby=EWX&amp;product=AFD&amp;format=CI&amp;version=1&amp;glossary=1\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">wrote in their forecast discussion on Thursday.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Light winds and dry air will make for another pleasant evening Saturday, but by Sunday morning, southeasterly winds will return off the Gulf, bringing an increase in moisture-related dew point temperatures\u00a0and humidity into early next week.<\/p>\n<p>Small rain chances return early next week, although most of the area will remain dry Monday. There\u2019s only a 10% chance of rain showers on Monday, increasing to 20% on Tuesday. By late next week, we\u2019ll be watching for coastal showers, a cold front and moisture from the Pacific, all of which could bring Central Texas a better chance of rain.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re planning to make the trek north along Interstate 35 this weekend, pack your patience for the traffic. Luckily, the weather won\u2019t be an issue.<br \/>The Texas Longhorns will face the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday at 2:30\u00a0p.m. in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning in Dallas will start in the mid-60s under mostly clear skies. Temperatures will quickly warm by noon, just in time for tailgating, with readings in the low 80s under mostly sunny skies and light easterly winds.<\/p>\n<p>By kickoff, temperatures will reach 87 degrees, with east to southeast winds continuing. Once the game wraps up \u2014 with Texas possibly celebrating a victory? \u2014 temperatures will retreat to around 83 degrees by 7\u00a0p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday will begin with clear skies, morning temperatures near 70 degrees and light northeast winds of 3 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-461157","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\/461157","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=461157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}