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San Marcos residents dug out and dusted off their umbrellas over the Labor Day Weekend as much-needed rainfall returned to the area. Here, some of the weather-prepared cross North LBJ Drive. Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo

More rain on the way, forecasters say

Wet Weather
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Central Texas’ reprieve from the hot dry days of summer is expected to last at least until Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

Rain came to the area over the holiday weekend, leaving about 1-1.5 inches in rain gauges in and around San Marcos, according to NWS Meteorologist Cory van Pelt. Thunder accompanied some of the rain that fell locally, but city officials said there were no weather-related power outages or other issues over the weekend.

Other spots around Central Texas received more precipitation, with up to 10 inches falling in northern Bexar County, van Pelt said. 

Although our rainy spell is coinciding with the development of Tropical Storm Gordon in the Gulf of Mexico, van Pelt said the storm is too far away to have a direct effect on the weather in Central Texas. This rain, he said, is part of a low pressure system that pushed out “the high pressure system that plagues us every summer and makes it summer.”

The last measurable rain at the San Marcos airport, van Pelt said, fell Aug. 12. 

This round of rain is expected to stick around for a while, he said.

“The pattern’s not going to change much the next couple of days.”

Currently, the seven-day forecast for San Marcos shows rain chances of at least 30 percent through Saturday. 

However, although the rains have caused some flooding in Central Texas, the drought is likely to remain, van Pelt said. The rain that has fallen so far and the rain that might come later this week will not make much of a difference, “unless it adds up quite a bit,” he said. 

The U.S. Drought Monitor’s most recent available information, from Aug. 28, shows Hays County as experiencing severe drought. 

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