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It was pretty much a bust for I-35, as I suspected it would be last night when the boundary was pushed way SE of where models had it by the MCV that rolled through yesterday afternoon. Some places SE of San Antonio did get 6"+ of rain, mainly in low populated areas.

10" this month, 1.6" today where I am. Camp Mabry's August all time record is about 9.6", so that's already beaten a few miles south of there. Models are firing the rain back up over I-35 overnight, but for now the main heavy rain axis was shunted pretty far SE by the MCV that came through the area this afternoon. That will have to start to shift back north pretty soon for the models to verify. Pretty sure the models are busting on the SE extent of the heavy rain-it's making inroads towards the Corpus Christi area now when most models had SE TX largely dry. If the rain stalls out there instead, I doubt we see much more in the Austin/San Antonio areas-the moisture will all be used up there.

It's looking like there could be some serious flooding from this area south through San Antonio and west. NWS is projecting up to 15" of rain in spots, which would cause major flooding considering all the rain we've had in the last 4-5 days. The latest models are starting to focus on the Austin area and just south/west. This might become a very dangerous event if we get training heavy rain/storms overnight.

Euro has another 4"+ of rain coming later this weekend especially I-35 and west with locally 7" in the western Hill Country. I think Camp Mabry needs 3.5" or so to make this the wettest August on record. I ended up with about 8.5" from the latest system that is finally gone. For LA, rain looks to be lighter, 1-3", but obviously any rain is unwelcome there (or here at this point-some creeks around Austin had flooding at times in the last few days).

Today's rain brought me to over 8". A couple of spots just west of town closer to Lake Travis have 12"+.

Heavy rain again nailing western Travis/Hays Counties where 8-10"+ of rain has already fallen, and creeks have already been flooding. Hearing thunder outside now, rain is slowly pivoting east again towards downtown. The last few nights have had these bouts of locally heavy rain that have dropped locally 3-5" each night.

Flash flood warnings up again for Austin and suburbs. About to go over 7" where I am, and other area totals are 8-10"+.

Flash Flood Warnings out for western Travis, Williamson and Burnet Counties. The Lake Travis area was nailed early this morning-Lakeway has an event total over 10" now.

High was 76 at Camp Mabry today. Was unbelievably refreshing, actually chilly. I think this is a record for lowest high temp for this date, about 20 degrees below normal. Event total just shy of 5" where I am.

About 4.5" total now where I am in Austin. We should be over 5" by the end of today given the steady light rain and mod/heavy patches around.

More of a general soaking around Austin today than yesterday. 2.1" of rain where I am since midnight, most areas are over 1". A couple of localized spots have over 3".

Euro had some pretty crazy rain amounts through day 10 throughout most of TX-widespread 5-8" pockets stretching from Mexico NE through the state.

Last Halloween in Austin we had rain rates like that, it was pretty much completely blinding. The streets went from dry to complete torrents in a few minutes.

Heat index of 116 at Camp Mabry now, 112 at the airport. Today has to be one of the top 5 most disgustingly, rotten hot days of my life.

100 Degree Days so far: Austin Camp Mabry: 21 (Today was especially awesome with a high of 102 and 111 heat index) AUS-Bergstrom Int'l: 8 (In a more rural setting and had a good amount of rain in late July) San Antonio Stinson Airport: 25 San Antonio Int'l: 3 Houston Hobby: 0 Intercontinental: 5 Dallas DFW: 13 Love Field: 14

Yeah, no fun. Today's day 15-currently 101. The ground is completely parched and dry now, crazy considering the wet spring we had. If this keeps up we'll have wildfires soon.

14 days 100+ so far in Austin this summer including today. We're way ahead of last year so far, and we finished with 25 days last summer.

Today will be the 7th 100+ degree day in Austin. And today like yesterday we have 110+ heat indices. Beyond disgusting. Soon, with the strong southerly winds we've had for weeks now, brushfires will be common across the area. The ground is already dry from having no rain in weeks.

Not like there isn't plenty of moist, disgusting air to be tapped here in Austin. Looks like CAPE should be sufficient for storms here, but the line's crawling south. I guess we'll see what happens. There's been zero rain where I am in about two weeks, and the ground's already looking parched with the daily 100 degree heat we've been having. Hopefully this doesn't turn into another severe flash drought like last summer which resulted in wildfires by early fall.

Good line of storms look to be headed south from Lampasas-Waco. Hopefully they make it here, can't believe I'm saying it but we could use the rain!!

Too bad you didn't move in the spring-San Antonio had some massive hail events this year. Get used to generally boring but very hot weather through September. We're just about to wrap up month 1 of constant 90+ highs in Austin. Now it's on to 95-100 every day, with humidity making for heat indices of 105+ every day. At this rate, in a few weeks we'll be at the 100+ daily highs phase. So far this summer looks like it will be hotter than last summer.

Heaviest rain since mid-June at my place now. Good to finally see some water coming into the ground again. The landscape here is brown and yellow as can be after the last two and a half months of almost total dryness. Barton Creek's station jumped from almost nothing to 0.53" in 20 minutes. After the massive flooding in May/June on almost all the area creeks, they're about dry as a bone now. Barely a trickle.

First 100 today here in Austin. It still feels like a furnace outside, at 5pm it was brutal. In Jan and Feb, average highs go from the low 60s to mid 70s, but it can get below freezing on a decent number of nights, and we can also have highs into the 80s under the right pattern. On average, there's maybe one or two winter weather events of some type where there's some sleet or freezing rain. Dallas isn't too far away and they have one or two more significant winter events per year.

Unless it's completely cloudy or wet, hitting 90 is pretty much a given. We also average 12-13 days a year above 100, and the ground has dried out, so we should start that up soon.

So far about 45 90F and over days in Austin. On average there's about 110 per year. Still hasn't hit 100-today might be the day, currently 99 and we've had some late highs recently.