Austin weather: Slight rain chances, but still hot

Fox seven. Austin Weather with meteorologist Zach. She is happy Labor Day. Everybody. The showers we had yesterday roaming central Texas were long gone. First thing this morning with clear skies and with a full morning of sunshine, we're in that hot zone before you know it. And this is where we had the rain yesterday. Estimated rainfall showing pockets of rain didn't add up the whole lot. We had two hundreds around Lake Travis. We had two hundreds and burn it. The big rain winter was up in Milam County, over half an inch of rain in Cameron, 10th of an inch in Giddings, over a quarter of an inch in Lockhart. And we're calling for more pop up showers here in the next few hours as the lingering tropical moisture from Edward is still here in central Texas. It is gonna break apart a little bit as we go throughout the week. So after today, the door closes shut for any more precipitation in the prime location for rain after today will be up and down the coastal plains. We have this upper level disturbance moving on by. That's what energized the atmosphere, creating the clouds and some rain kept our highs below 100. As that low moves farther and farther away from us, the rain chances will disappear and areas out across the hill country. Since you're closer to that upper low, we'll have the best chance, not a great chance at 30% here in the next few hours, 20% for everybody else. As we take it hour by hour, you can see those showers initiating with the heat of the day out of the hill country, not expecting severe weather flooding, but look out for some lightning. If you're gonna be on the area lakes or in the swimming pool and then late in the day, those showers will dissipate clearing skies tonight and then less pop up showers coming at you tomorrow. If we do see some rain today, especially out the hill country, the rain totals will be very low under a quarter of an inch and we need some more rain around here desperately. As we wrapped up that rainy spring and early summer, we were in great shape in late July, only 30% of Texas and drought mode. Now it's jumped up to 57% of the Lone Star state in drought mode, mainly a level one around here and normally dry conditions out across the hill country. And with the lack of rain lately, more water usage and higher evaporation rates, the lakes are going down. Lake Travis dropped about a foot in the last week. Still great shape, 94% full Lake Buchanan at 97% full heading out to the lakes. Have fun, be safe and enjoy water temperatures in the eighties. It's air that you can wear. Not only is it hot, it's very humid. It's gonna remain that way all week long, and the wind's not gonna help us out staying on the light side. That air is gonna be very stagnant and uncomfortable already in the low to mid nineties will wrap up the day in the mid upper nineties. If you're lucky enough to see a shower cooling off a lot quicker in the eighties and then all of us will have to wait until late evening for us to drop below 90 than seventies. First thing tomorrow morning is not only the heat we have to deal with, but the high humidity making it feel like a sauna. We're talking about feels like numbers right around 100 to 105. So where's this heat dome going? Well, it's gonna wobble back and forth in the next seven days, but it never fully releases his grip on us. So that means less rain and even hotter times are ahead this week. The countdown is on. We're 15 days away from the official start toe fall. The problem is we're gonna have to wait a little bit longer for a significant cool down for the next two weeks. Pretty good chance we're gonna stay hotter than average, with most of the rain either in the Midwest or along the Gulf Coast. But beyond the seven day forecast, Climate Prediction Center and some of the long rain forecast models are hinting at the possibility of the blocking I shifting to the east, and this could open the door for more Pacific systems to impact our weather and hopefully increase our rain chances. So for this Labor Day, we're heading for 98 with a clown sun mix, hot and steamy and a 20% chance of rain today. After today, the rain chances go bye bye, and we're gonna start up another triple digit streak with high pressure, large and in charge rounds arounds of sunny, dry skies and highs right around 100 101.