After enduring rain and flooding last week, what a nice weekend! We sincerely hope you got outdoors on what turned out to be an especially comfortable Sunday, as rain is back in the picture again. In fact, we already see some light returns on the radar, and it's an overall 30% chance for mostly light showers today. The forecast calls for highs in the low to mid 60s.
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Moisture from two storms in the Pacific -- Hurricane Willa and Tropical Storm Vicente -- looks to be heading this direction with a couple rounds of moderate to possibly heavy rainfall.
For now, the low levels of our atmosphere are too dry to allow much of the rain we see on the radar to actually make it down to the ground. But that will change as moire moisture arrives.
Futurecast shows the first round of showers moving into the Austin area tonight from the southwest. We'll ramp up the rain chance to 60% from sunset tonight through sunrise tomorrow. The first round will likely wrap up during the morning, leaving us with a lower 40% shot for additional showers during the day Tuesday.
Computer models show Hurricane Willa making landfall in Mexico tomorrow then coming up and crossing the southern half of the Lone Star State on Wednesday. That's when we can expect the second and heavier round of showers and potential storms, with an overall 80% rain chance along with gusty winds on Wednesday.
The rain should push east of Austin by late Wednesday night, and will be followed by gradual clearing on Thursday. It'll be nice to see some sun around here to close out the week.
As waterways are already swollen from last week's heavy rain, it might not take much for more flooding across the region. Be sure to join us on 'Weather on the 1s' to see how much rain is in the forecast, with reports every 10 minutes on TV and/or via the live stream.
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--Chief Meteorologist Burton Fitzsimmons (@Burton_Spectrum)