Austin weather: Sunny streak rolls on

Happy Thursday everybody. The sunny streak rolls on. Safe to say that because this morning not a lot of cloud cover showing up on our Santa Rita Ranch Cam. It's going to be a great looking fall day. Most of the low clouds and rain showers staying in South Texas. Some of these mid to high level clouds could sneak on in later on today but they're not going to turn into rainmakers because on the muggy meter it is super dry near the ground. As long as we have that northeasterly component to the wind we get to enjoy more low humidity days today and tomorrow and then turning more humid this weekend going into early next week. Now we're down to three things on the allergy slide. Mold moderate, ragweed count high, and the grass pollen numbers are on the low end. What a pleasant lunch hour. We're in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees with a pretty blue sky. By the end of the day, low to mid 80s across the board. For your evening plans, we're in the 60s and 70s, and we're starting tomorrow back into the 50s. It's been that way for the last seven mornings full afternoon of sunshine on tap for us mainly clear this evening waking up to clear skies tomorrow and then we'll wrap up the work week sunny and gorgeous looking at the bigger picture we have this blocking high pressure system right on top of us putting a lid on things and making this next storm system a slow mover hasn't moved a whole lot but eventually it's going to catch a ride on this storm track and slingshot it more to our north so not a direct hit for us but it will influence our weather just a bit right now it's cranking out rounds and rounds of thunderstorms in Arizona starting to move into Utah and then another round of rain increasing across Southern California checking out our sky cams across America you can see those rain clouds in Flagstaff Arizona yesterday for the first time since 2010 they were under tornado warnings and some dark storm clouds over Sedona Arizona where they're under a slight risk for severe weather today we're tracking this low for you and it doesn't look like it's heading right for Texas the blocking high is going to win out and this low will veer more to the north it will begin to pull in more low-level moisture underneath that big blue H and that's why we're thinking it's going to be slightly more humid to you Saturday and Sunday generating more scattered clouds but no rain for your weekend fun and with the extra moisture the mornings won't be as cool lows in the low 60s afternoon highs in the low to mid 80s and we'll have more cloud cover on Sunday compared to Saturday and then we have the Longhorn game Saturday evening the weather is going to be picture perfect light breeze no threat of rain kickoff temperature 82 and then 70s for the rest of the game as we transition into the last week of October going into the first week of November much of the country will be warmer than average we're not going to enter a slight chance of rain into the picture until next Tuesday as this wave of lower pressure clips the area it still looks like the highest rain totals will stay out in west Texas for us we may catch in a tenth to a quarter of an inch that's not going to slow down the drought conditions 70 percent of the Lone Star State in drought mode and from Austin eastward we're still under severe drought this looks promising though as we get closer to next weekend Halloween weekend and beyond the weather pattern will shift where we get more rain events in here as we wrap up the month of October and go into the start of November. Just slight chance of rain Tuesday, mainly dry seven day forecast with more pleasant mornings and warm afternoons.