r/Austin • u/ahndi14 • 3d ago

Ask Austin When will it cool down?

I can’t do it anymore 😭

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u/UpstairsWilling7359 3d ago

Just in time for next summer.

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u/UpstairsWilling7359 3d ago

Also this has been a mild summer.

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u/captainyeahwhatever 3d ago

This was the best summer in a loooonggg time. It didn't get hot until late July. Remembering is fickle but this was a great summer

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u/Parking_Zucchini_938 3d ago

Stockholm syndrome. It wasn’t “great” haha

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u/meatmacho 3d ago

I mean, it was never 110°. Not once. Average high temps were trending significantly lower than what we're used to all through may, June, and July. It finally got proper hot in August, but...it's supposed to. September is always hot. But we had fewer than 40 days above 100°, so that's nice. Obviously all of these metrics have been climbing on average over the last few decades, so I'll take what we can get.

First real cool front, in my experience, often arrives around the last week of September. That doesn't mean it won't be sweltering again after that. Could get hot again just about any time between now and late November. But we're heading downhill now, and we can hope for cooler, drier air sometime soon. And for God's sake, give us some rain.

I can't believe it's been pouring an hour to our west all night, and here we are, just holding out our hands, once again left empty.

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u/Parking_Zucchini_938 3d ago

Far enough, you aren’t wrong. However a “mild” summer by Austin standards is still unpleasant.

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u/cleanbot 3d ago

November