Rain bands from the remnants of Tropical Storm Harold are putting a cap on 45 straight days of triple-digit heat.
Austin's record-breaking streak of triple-digit temperatures is finally coming to an end.
The temperature at the Camp Mabry weather station is not expected to climb above 99 degrees Tuesday, capping 45 days of uninterrupted triple-digit heat. The previous record, set in 2011, was 27 days of consecutive triple digits. KUT's Mose Buchele reported last week that meteorologists expect this summer toTuesday also marked the city's first rainfall in a month. Camp Mabry last recorded rain — one-hundredth of an inch to be exact — on July 22. Tuesday's rain came from an outer band of the remnants of Tropical Storm Harold, which made landfall near Corpus Christi this morning.
The exact amount of rain that fell on Camp Mabry is to be determined. The weather station at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has measured 0.14 inches of rain so far. "While it was nice to see Austin take a break from the long streak of 100-degree temperatures today, a new streak will begin Wednesday for another week or so," the National Weather Service said in a
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