Austin weather: Triple digit heat this weekend?

Good friday morning, everybody. Thanks for checking in 6 46. Hang in there. It's almost the weekend. It was a victory yesterday. We kept it below 100 and exactly where we should be for this time of year. In fact, we have more nineties and one hundreds area wide with that extra cloud cover from tropical storm bertha lurking nearby. And as promised, we were talking about this yesterday. Good day, Austin, that we could have a wave of light rain move in right around three in the morning. Sure enough, that's what happened now. Most of the rain is moving on out. We have the lingering clouds and high humidity. Lots of cloud cover up at Santa Rita Ranch, and that's where we have a few sprinkles here and there, but no major impacts for the morning commute. And here's what's left of all that light rain starting to move more to the north and west of Austin from Lake Travis up to Leander Liberty Hill. And then the rain fading quickly out there in Gillespie County. Most of the measurable rain like we thought happened from I-35 eastward with under a quarter of an inch under a tenth of an inch officially in Austin. And there's that wave of rain from the hill country all the way down toward the border. It didn't make it to tropical depression status around called station in between here in Houston, and that was the last advisory last evening. And now we're just dealing with a lingering wave of lower pressure, provide enough lift to generate that light rain, mainly impacting us here in the next hour or two. And then that's it. You can put away the umbrella for the rest of the month. Rain chances dropping quite a bit. We're hanging out in the mid upper seventies cooler than this time yesterday. Remember, we were in the eighties today. We're heading for the mid upper nineties with feels like numbers right around 100 103. That's just below heat advisory criteria from late morning to late afternoon. We're right on the money yesterday of that average of 98. The records are safe sunset at 8 30 and the nineties will outweigh the one hundred's, at least on the thermometer. But with all that lingering tropical moisture, we will have feels like temperatures in triple digit territory. We have a nice breeze to look forward to providing some minor heat relief. If you stay in the shade, have the sunglasses, sunscreen, bottles of water ready to go. Even though we're not under a heat advisory, don't take the heat humidity combo lightly and you may need some extra hair product with some gusty winds in the forecast. The light rain we have out there right now, it's very isolated. We'll be out of here in the next hour and then dry it out and the sun breaks out this afternoon and we'll call for a cloud sun mix again on Saturday. That shouldn't do the trick to keep us away from triple digit territory on this getaway Friday. Head of the West Coast looks good. Head of the East Coast for the most part looks okay except around the Carolinas and then back toward the Midwest. That's gonna be the storm zone today. Slight risk for severe weather all the way up across sections of Minnesota and North Dakota. We have a rainy start around Kansas City heading for ST Louis and then scattered showers possible around the Carolinas. It's gonna be really tough to get more rain in here for the rest of the month because of this, the dome of stability that usually hangs out in the summertime right here in Texas will move on in and it will strengthen over time as it pushes down on us. The clouds have no chance to build up into rainmaker. So after the sprinkles go away this morning, that's all she wrote. And we're living in that donut hole with most of the rain and storms going around us. Partly sunny today, tomorrow, mostly sunny Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. And that's when we'll crank up the heat a little more with highs right around 100 Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and then looking way down the road for the first week of August. You guessed it. It's gonna remain hotter than average in the wake of Bertha. No signs of new tropical development from the gulf all the way out across the Atlantic. We have a flare up of storms of the Caribbean or way out in the Atlantic. But the hurricane center says there's just too much windshear out there for any development out of those tropical waves. Back here at home, the sprinkles move on out and then the cloud cover will break apart. But we have enough cloud cover this morning to slow down the warm up and keep her highs in the mid upper nineties. Always looking for small victories this time of year. And then tonight, no rain, clear skies in the evening, turning cloudy tomorrow morning with lows in the seventies. We got a hot but rain free weekend for his Saturday and Sunday, even hotter next week as that heat dome strengthens. We're gonna start up another triple digit streak starting next Tuesday.