UPDATE: Thursday, January 22, 3 p.m.: The National Weather Service upgraded its winter storm watch to a winter storm warning for the Texas Hill Country and Austin metro area during a news briefing Thursday afternoon, January 22. This warning, which begins 6 a.m. Saturday, January 24, through noon Sunday, January 25, covers the I-35 corridor from Comal through Travis, Williamson County and eastward over to Lee and Fayette counties.
NWS is confident in “hard freezes,” Saturday night, Sunday night and Monday night, January 26. There is still potential for long duration freezes across the Hill Country for 48 hours and Austin metro for 36 to 48 hours. As previously predicted, wind chill values will be “dangerously low” into the single digits for some areas and lower teens for others both Saturday and Sunday nights.
Rain is expected to begin Friday night, January 23, and will transition to freezing rain as early as Saturday morning. NWS added that Saturday night there is a small potential for some sleet or snow dusting to mix in most likely in the Hill Country, Williamson or Travis County. If so, it would be maybe a tenth or two of an inch of snow…