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The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the Austin area from Wednesday night to Friday night.

"A cold front will bring periods of heavy rainfall which could lead to life-threatening flash flooding," the NWS said.

Some areas could see 2-4 inches of rain, with as many as 8 inches of rain possible in isolated spots.

The watch is active from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 7 p.m. Friday. It covers a large part of Central Texas, including Travis, Hays and Williamson counties.

The NWS warned that rivers, streams, low-water crossings and urban areas could experience flooding.

The flood watch overlaps with the first day of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Friday — one of the largest outdoor annual events in the city.

The festival posted on social media Tuesday that organizers are monitoring the forecast and "preparing for a range of weather conditions," but didn't mention possible delays or cancellations. It encouraged festivalgoers to follow its accounts, sign up for text message notifications or use the festival app for updates.

A Flood Watch has been issued which includes much of South Central Texas from 7 PM Wednesday through 7 PM Friday. A cold front will bring periods of heavy rainfall which could lead to life-threatening flash flooding. Stay weather aware and have multiple ways to receive warnings. pic.twitter.com/U3Y8DdGiRg

— NWS Austin/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) September 29, 2026

The cold front is forecast to move from the Texas Panhandle into the I-35 corridor over the next couple of days, NWS service hydrologist Chris Morris said Tuesday morning.

"At the same time, that cold front is pulling in moisture from the remnants of what was Hurricane Polo," Morris said. "We're looking at a very wet atmosphere, and with the cold front allowing for extra forcing and focusing, that is going to bring us periods of heavy rain Wednesday night through Friday."

Scattered storms are also possible ahead of the cold front's arrival in the area, but rain chances will mainly build going into Thursday.

There's still uncertainty on the front's movement and which areas will be hardest hit by rain, Morris said. But anyone in the watch area should be prepared for the possibility of life-threatening flooding.

Morris recommended getting updates from trusted sources as the forecast evolves, reconsidering plans near rivers, creeks or flood-prone areas, and avoiding driving on flooded roads.

Here are a few ways to stay informed during severe weather:

Colorado enters its game against No. 10 Texas Tech on a two-game losing streak, with losses to Northwestern and Baylor. The Buffaloes come into this game as major underdogs.

Last time Colorado played against Texas Tech, the Buffaloes won 41-27 back in 2024. Granted, the Red Raiders were rebuilding, and the Buffaloes had Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. If the Buffs want to pull off an upset this season and beat a top-10 team for the first time since September 2007, they will need to prevent the Red Raiders' defense, especially linebacker Austin Romaine, from making negative plays.

How Austin Romaine can change this game

Among the many talented players on this Red Raiders defense is linebacker Austin Romaine. This is his first year with Texas Tech after spending the past three seasons with Kansas State. He is their do-it-all linebacker, with the second-most tackles on the team (27), the third-most solo tackles (15), and two interceptions. He recorded both interceptions against Sam Houston last week and returned both for touchdowns.

Romaine can massively disrupt any game with big plays, and he is everywhere on the field. He can create a costly turnover, make a crucial tackle for loss that forces a punt. Even though he isn't the green dot on defense for Texas Tech, he plays a vital role in their success and is coming off one of the best games of his career, when he was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week.

How Colorado slows Romaine down

For a player as talented as Romaine, Colorado can't truly eliminate him from the game. However, to minimize his impact, the Buffaloes must know where he is on every play. It would help to throw the ball away from him whenever possible to reduce the chance he tips it or picks it off. Colorado's receivers also need to create separation so quarterback Isaac Wilson, who is expected to get the start, can get the ball out quickly.

In the run game, Colorado should try to run away from Romaine when they can. However, the most important thing is to keep the run game effective. Running the ball is the best way to control the line of scrimmage and the clock. Especially with a quarterback change this week, running the ball will be crucial for the Buffaloes to attempt one of the biggest upsets of the season so far.

Prediction

Even if Colorado can take Romaine out of the game, Texas Tech has plenty of other defensive playmakers who can generate takeaways or shut down the offense. Defensively, they only allow an average of 94.8 rushing yards per game, so they have plenty of stars on the defensive line who can stop the run.

Romaine is coming off a strong performance against Sam Houston, has at least two solo tackles a game this season and 23 tackles in the past three games. Romaine is a one-man wrecking crew who will be a problem for the Buffaloes all game.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Complete temperature records for Camp Mabry, Austin’s official reporting site, date back to 1898. Since then, Austin has reached 100° more than 2,000 times.

The average for any given year from 1898 to 2024 is about 16 triple-digit days per year, but the data shows that number is increasing. Between 1991 and 2020, the current dates used by the National Weather Service to calculate averages, the average number of 100° days was 29.

The chart below shows the number of triple-digit temperatures recorded each year since records began.

The summer of 2011 was record-breaking. Austin hit 100° a total of 90 times that year, including a high of 112° on August 28. That ties with Sept. 5, 2000, as the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city.

The years 2023, 1925, 2009, 2022 and 1923 all saw more than 60 days of triple-digit heat.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Austin has failed to reach 100° in 12 different years since records began, most recently in 1987.

The chart below shows the number recorded by decade.

While the 1920s and 1950s both stand out with a high number of triple-digit days, the first half of the 20th Century had relatively few days above 100°. Since the 1990s, the number has been increasing quickly. The 2000s, for example, saw 273 days at or above 100°. That number increased to 409 in the 2010s.

Unsurprisingly, August has recorded the most triple-digit days. The chart below shows the number of 100° days per month since records began.

Of all triple-digit days, almost half have been in the month of August, while about a third have been in July. About 12% of triple-digit days have been in June, while about 7% have been in September. May and October combined account for less than 1% of all triple-digit days since 1898.

May 4, 1984, holds the title as the earliest 100° day in a calendar year. While having an incredibly early start, the year only had 18 triple-digit days in total. Meanwhile, the latest 100° on record occurred on Oct. 13, in 2024.

So which calendar day has seen 100° the most?

Aug. 10 has hit 100° a total of 43 times since records began, more than any other day. Aug. 9 is second, with 41 triple-digit temperatures.

The 30-year average for the first 100° day each year is July 4, while Aug. 30 is the average last triple-digit day of the year.

Since records began in the 1890s, Austin has recorded a freeze on more than 2,300 days. Meanwhile, the city has reached the triple digits more than 2,000 times.

Over recent years, the number of 100° days has been catching up rapidly to the number of freezes. Since 2010, Austin has recorded more than 670 days of triple-digit heat, compared to about 220 freezes.

grayDUCK Gallery invited supporters to a wake Saturday night. But there wasn’t much mourning going on inside the compact art space that had carved out a distinct niche on East Cesar Chavez.

More than 100 people passed through over several hours, celebrating owner Jill Schroeder’s 16-year run since opening grayDUCK in an even smaller space off South First Street. What made the evening markedly different from many creative-space farewells in Austin was that Schroeder got to close the gallery on her own terms.

Schroeder and her husband, Mark, bought the property in late 2013, which protected them from being pushed out by rising rent, redevelopment or a landlord ending their lease. After a dozen years and more than 120 exhibitions, Schroeder said it was time to step away from the constant commitment needed to keep the gallery running to its potential.

“I wasn’t getting the same joy as I was before,” Schroeder said the day after the going-away celebration. “I was just ready for a change, ready to not worry about the gallery 24/7.”

Schroeder had said from the start that owning the building would give her more freedom over what grayDUCK could show and how artists could use the space.

Looking back, she said that largely worked out the way she hoped. grayDUCK could reshape the gallery around exhibitions that might have been difficult to stage in a more conventional commercial setting.

“I really am proud of the fact that it could be a place where they could experiment,” Schroeder said. “We could do what we wanted to it, and, you know, we built walls and took them down and did all sorts of stuff for the artists.”

San Antonio artist Raul Rene Gonzalez benefited quickly from Schroeder’s artist-first approach. Gonzalez first showed at grayDUCK in 2014, while he was still in graduate school, and continued exhibiting there throughout most of the gallery’s run on East Cesar Chavez.

He said Schroeder gave him room to move away from the abstract work he was making early in his career and to develop more personal pieces about parenting, construction and labor, working across painting, drawing, mixed media, performance art and dance.

“I could really reach out to her if I had something that I was working on, just reach out to her like, ‘Hey, how can we make this work into an exhibition?’” Gonzalez said.

He said grayDUCK’s ongoing, supportive approach gave him a consistent foothold in Austin’s art scene and, when Schroeder told him she was closing, he initially felt like he was losing his “lifeline in Austin.”

Gonzalez said that relationship also helped him become part of Austin’s broader art community. Even though he lives in San Antonio, his work was regularly available at grayDUCK, and Schroeder made repeated trips south to see what he was working on and bring pieces back to Austin to show in the gallery.

“For me, that was really important just to be able to have a place in Austin where I truly felt like I was part of the Austin art scene for a long time,” Gonzalez said.

grayDUCK developed a reputation pretty quickly as a reliable discovery space where collectors could encounter artists they might not otherwise have found.

Austin collector Shalini Ramanathan and her husband started visiting grayDUCK at its original South First location. Ramanathan said they buy from artists who are working now in the communities where they live, and bought a number of pieces through the gallery over the years.

She said Schroeder’s personal point of view stood out, giving artists the latitude to push their work.

“Jill has a very distinctive eye, and she’s very sure of her own taste,” Ramanathan said. “The programming is very personal. It reflects her interests and what catches her eye.”

Ramanathan said she was often surprised by how dramatically grayDUCK could transform its 1,100 square feet for a show. That could mean a variety of surprises for visitors; the couple would create large display structures if needed to fill the room with ceramics, host musical or performance art events, or build complex video installations to suit an artist’s ambitions.

At Saturday’s gathering, looped animations were projected throughout much of the gallery’s dimly lit back room, adding atmosphere to the gothic-surreal installations and paintings from artist Yuliya Lanina, which took over the walls and floors of the main display area as well.

“They really support the artist’s vision for what they want to do,” Ramanathan said. “It’s always easy to kind of scale things back, and I don’t think they’ve ever done that.”

Schroeder said she’d been thinking about closing for a couple of years and nearly called it around grayDUCK’s 15th anniversary last year. She kept going after discovering a handful of exhibitions she wanted to put on before closing the space.

“I just couldn’t pass them up,” she said. “As soon as I did all the shows that I really, really wanted to do toward the end of my career, then it just felt like it was the perfect time to stop.”

Schroeder and Ramanathan both said they see reasons for optimism in Austin’s gallery scene despite grayDUCK’s departure. Schroeder said the local art community has gone through cycles of galleries opening and closing, but feels more stable now, with strong support from the collecting community.

Ramanathan said grayDUCK’s loss will be felt, while pointing to newer and established galleries that continue to build audiences for local and regional artists. She singled out McLennon Pen Co., Ivester Contemporary and Northern-Southern, calling the latter’s downtown home a “delightfully quirky space” worth keeping an eye on.

With her creative home now closed, Schroeder isn’t planning to disappear from the arts community. She expects to join the board of Women & Their Work and said she would be open to curating shows elsewhere.

But retirement will also mean making room for pursuits that got crowded out by the demands of running a gallery and staying active in the Austin fine art community. Shroeder’s travel plans include a trip to Mexico to see the monarch butterflies at their wintering grounds, and she may eventually return to making art herself.

“I’m going to travel more and kind of rest up and see what else is out there,” she said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — University of Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte apologized for the top-ranked Longhorns' vulgar on-field celebrations during their win over Tennessee and called them “embarrassing” for the school.

In rare criticism directed at his own program and players, Del Conte addressed the fallout from the celebrations by defensive end Colin Simmons and running back Raleek Brown on Tuesday in his weekly “Forty Acres Insider” blog post on Texas athletics.

During Texas' 20-17 win, Simmons was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for mimicking urinating on the field after one of his school-record 5 1/2 sacks. Brown's fourth-quarter touchdown celebration included putting his hand to his crotch and then to his face before pretending to pass out.

“I'm not happy about that, I know none of us are, and it was embarrassing to our proud and widely respected football team, athletics program and university,” Del Conte wrote. “It certainly raised very warranted concerns that many of you shared with me, drew a lot of attention and I understand why.”

Del Conte noted coach Steve Sarkisian on Monday called the celebrations unacceptable and said he had discussed the matter with both Simmons and Brown. Sarkisian also suggested the players would face discipline but did not elaborate.

Sarkisian briefly removed Simmons from the game, and video clips of the moment were viral by halftime.

Similar player conduct “cannot happen again,” Del Conte wrote.

Simmons apologized in his postgame comments.

“I also want to add my apology to our Longhorn community and everyone who expects better from Texas,” Del Conte wrote. “We should represent this university with class, dignity and respect at all times, and in those moments, we fell short.

“I do recognize that these are young men who made mistakes, and this is a meaningful learning experience. They have owned their mistakes, and those actions are not reflective of who they are," Del Conte wrote.

Del Conte's statement is the third time Texas has addressed on- and off-field issues and controversies since rising to No. 1 after beating Ohio State on Sept. 12.

Within days after that victory, star quarterback Arch Manning apologized for publicly laughing about an AI-generated video that depicted Sarkisian slapping ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe.

Texas then suspended linebacker coach Johnny Nansen for one game after he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated.

Texas Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife, who has a close relationship with Del Conte and Sarkisian and is heavily involved in major decisions surrounding the Texas athletic department, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.