After Weekend Rains, Austin Region Back To Hot And Dry This Week

AUSTIN, TX — Hot and dry. If that's the way you like your weather, then you're in for paradise this week. After weekend rains that extended into Monday, we'll be back to normal — or what we in Central Texas have come to accept as normal — with temperatures in the high 90s with nary a sign of precipitation.

But it beats the month's-worth triple-digit heat experienced prior to this weekend's rain.

This week's forecast suggests that the rain many of us enjoyed this past weekend (and people in some parts well into Monday) are now a thing of the past. Some people might view this hot-and-dry trend as a welcome one, particularly residents of Cedar Park where 1,000 households reportedly lost power Saturday at the peak of the but potent storms.

To be sure, the rain was welcome given the cooling effect it had in the region. Needless to say, the added rain also is invaluable to flora and fauna while helping raise the aquifer level. But many are happy it's over. The aftermath of the rain yielded cooler — one might say delightfully nippy — weather in its wake, with gusts of up to 20 miles per hour whipping around amid a low of 75 degrees by evening to boot.

In a word, it was delightful.

But back to the forecast. The National Weather Service tells us temperatures in the high 90s more commonly associated with summer will make their return this week. Thank you, rain that came over the weekend, for the cooling off. We hardly knew ye.

Here's the meteorological rundown for the week:

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 104. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night will bring partly cloudy conditions with a low around 76. South southeast wind around 10 mph.

Wednesday: Expected to be mostly sunny, with a high near 97. Heat index values as high as 104. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Night calls for mostly clear conditions, with a low around 76. South wind 5 to 15 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Thursday night will be mostly clear, with a low around 76. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 98. South wind around 5 mph. Friday night is predicted to be mostly clear, with a low around 76. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. Saturday night will be mostly clear, with a low around 76.

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