![]() ![]() ![]() Saturday is expected to be the first day in nearly a week that temperatures will stay above freezing in the daytime and at night. Official snowfall tallies were pending, but total daytime snow accumulation in Austin was likely to be no more than a half-inch.īut the likelihood of a thaw is looming. The weather service's extended forecast includes a stretch of daytime Friday that will be warmer than freezing and at least 24 hours of melting temperatures starting Saturday.įriday should be sunny with temperatures climbing to a high of 39 degrees before slipping back below freezing around nightfall.Įvening skies will be mostly clear with overnight lows sinking into the 20s, forecasters said. "Very difficult driving conditions are expected across this region today and travel is highly discouraged," a weather service bulletin Thursday morning said.Īustin temperatures on Thursday stayed at or below freezing for much of the day. Unstable air in the atmosphere early Thursday produced a mix of freezing rain and graupel - which we in Central Texas know as those snowy white ice pellets that sometimes get mistaken for sleet or hail - in the region before snow appeared. Winter of 2020-21: 7.9 inches, as of Wednesday Meteorologists are calling for more sunshine in the coming days and an end to winter precipitation.Īustin's main weather station at Camp Mabry reported as much as 6.4 inches of snow between Sunday night and Monday, the most snow Austin has seen in more than 70 years when about 6.5 inches fell in January 1949.įebruary's snowfall amount, when added to the 1.5 inches that fell in January, would make the winter of 2020-21 (the months of December, January and February) the third-snowiest winter in Austin weather history:ģ. Snow fell in Austin for the third time this year on Thursday - a final dose of winter precipitation that punctuated a week of misery after freezing temperatures, snow and ice triggered power and water outages throughout Central Texas.īut hope was on the horizon, as thawing temperatures were expected to arrive briefly Friday and more strongly Saturday, the National Weather Service said. ![]()
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