Austin, TX – Texas residents planning Halloween celebrations may want to keep an eye on forecast updates as federal weather outlooks show changing conditions across the southern United States from Oct 30-Nov 5.
According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, its eight- to 14-day temperature and precipitation outlooks issued Thursday, Oct. 22, cover the period surrounding Halloween. The maps favor wetter-than-normal conditions across portions of the central and eastern United States, although that signal is not uniform across Texas.
For Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, the outlook provides an early reason to monitor rain chances rather than a confirmed forecast of showers Saturday night…