Austin weather: Bye rain! Expect drier days ahead

Happy Tuesday, everybody. 12 minutes after 8 o'clock. Thanks for stopping by. Join us on Good Day Austin. It's already looking much better outside. We have brighter skies with some sunlight trying to fight through those clouds. Most of the rain has shut off. No fog issues here in Austin. On our Mack High 4 time lapse out of Georgetown, looking off to the northwest, I see even more clearing out across the Hill Country. And that's where we had most of the fog this morning. Happy to report the visibilities are quickly improving. If you live in a low-lying area, you still have some lingering fog. You know the drill. Make sure you have the low beams on and watch your speed. Increase that following distance between you and the other drivers should be just fine. And here in the next hour, all that fog's going to burn off. Will it return late tonight? You're checking out future visibilities, by the way. And the fog could invade parts of the western hill country 24 hours from now. What about our rainfall prospects for today? Unlikely to see any more rain in the hill country. Here in Austin, very slight chance. The prime location for more spotty showers will be across our eastern counties. So you may need the umbrella. You will not need the rain boots. We're not expecting puddles. May need the long sleeves early on this morning. And some of us may need the sunglasses again today. Haven't shut down our MaxLive radar just yet because we still have some showers in the area. We have one cruising through Caldwell County, about to leave Luling and Lockhart If you live in Bastrop-Fayette counties, that shower is heading your way in the next 30 to 45 minutes. Here's a sample of some of the rain gauge totals from the LCRA network. The big rain winners out in the Hill Country, 1 to 3 inches. Here in the Austin Metro, we picked up about a half an inch to 1 inch. 1 to 2 inches up in Williamson County, not as much across your eastern counties. And officially, Camp Mabry, over an inch. And no matter what happens for the rest of this month. This month, November 2026, will be wetter than average. And, oh, yeah, we have more rain machines showing up in that seven-day forecast. You thought it was soggy around here. Just west of the hill country, radar estimates four to six inches of rain around Junction and Rock Springs. Sometimes when we get that heavy rain out that way, it will run off into the Llano River and put it in flood mode. That's what's happening this morning. The Llano River keeps going up and up and up. We have a flood warning in effect for the Llano River until tonight. And the latest level, 12.5 feet. And a new projection now could crest at 14 feet, putting it in moderate flood stage, well shy of major flood stage. But that flood water's got to go somewhere. It's going downstream. We'll funnel into Lake LBJ eventually. And the Wortham Dam holds that up. And then it goes down into Lake Marble Falls. And the LCRA expected to open up one floodgate at Wortham Dam on Lake LBJ and one floodgate at Starkey Dam, Lake Marble Falls. And then after that, that floodwater ends up in Lake Travis. So the lake levels will go up, at least for Lake Travis. Looking across the state, yesterday that upper low was spinning here, putting us in a prime position to see rain the last three days. Now it's pivoting more to the north. It is moving away from us. It's still close enough to generate some clouds and also some of those showers, but eventually it will filter in some drier air as that upper low departs and will squeeze in at least three days of sunny, beautiful weather starting tomorrow. Now today, we'll have some lingering clouds. I'll call it mostly cloudy, but I still think we're going to see peaks of sunshine here and there throughout the day, but not much rain. A few spotty showers over our eastern counties. No rain tonight, clearing up. If that happens, we could have even more patchy fog to deal with first thing tomorrow morning. And then more sun and clouds coming up on your Veterans Day. If we do see some showers across our eastern counties, the totals are going to be extremely low. A few hundredths of an inch. The rain did a number on the pollens. The only thing showing up, mold in the low category. Right now, we're waking up into the 50s for the most part. 59 up in Burnet. 59 at Bastrop, 60s up and down I-35. Pretty typical fall morning, mostly cloudy skies with peaks of sun. Winds are calm and allowing some of that fog to form. And if you couldn't get a round of golf in the last couple of days because it was too soggy, the weather's going to be a lot better today. A light breeze, barely any rain, but it may be cart path only or 90-degree rule because the ground's pretty soggy. We're going to go from the upper 50s, low 60s to near 70 at noon. Upper 60s, low 70s for afternoon high. My 60s this evening. When you wake up tomorrow morning, more 50s and 60s, and then a huge warm-up for Veterans Day with a lot more bright, sunny skies, we're going to be way up into the 70s and seasonal. There goes that low-pressure system, brought us some beneficial rain, and on the western side of it, we'll be under the influence of a drier, northwesterly flow that will help slingshot a front through here. You probably won't notice it Wednesday night. Winds will kick up out of the north. That's about it. Going to reinforce the clear skies for Thursday and Friday. It's going to be a gorgeous finish to the week with low humidity, cool mornings, and pleasant afternoons. And there's all that sunshine to look forward to for the second half of the week. Soak it up because here's the next game changer that will make an appearance by the weekend. A Pacific low. It's going to take the same path. As the last one, almost a carbon copy of what happened to us last weekend as it starts to cloud up during the day Saturday and then the rain faucet turns on Saturday night into Sunday. And early indications from the National Weather Service, they're thinking we could get another at least half an inch to one inch. But some of the computer weather models are showing higher totals than that. The European weather model that did a fantastic job with the last storm system is showing in between two and three inches of rain. So next week, wetter than average and also the following week. The greens are getting darker and darker, meaning better chances of a rainy weather pattern for the next two weeks. Starting to act like a typical El Nino weather pattern around here, increasing the frequency of rain events. For much of the area, we're going to get a break from the rain today. A cloud-sun mix, a high of 70 degrees, mostly showers east of I-35. Tonight, some clearing. Patchy fog first thing tomorrow morning, a low of 57. Then the sun breaks out. It's going to turn out to be a pretty Veterans Day. High of 77, slightly cooler behind that dry, breezy front. But look at all that heavy dose of sunshine Thursday and Friday. Clouding up and then turning rainy again late Saturday into Sunday. We have one lone shower exiting Caldwell County, going into Bastrop and Fayette County here in the next 15 to 30 minutes.