We know most of Texas felt the heat yesterday, but that is changing with the cold front that has just pushed through! Are you ready?

Austin reached 99 degrees, San Antonio 95, Del Rio 96, Houston 98, Corpus Christi 95, and the Brownsville area in extreme southern Texas reached 91 degrees. Northern Texas was not too far from the south half, with the Dallas-Fort Worth area reaching 93 degrees, and even Lubbock reached 91 degrees on Tuesday. Temperatures on Wednesday afternoon will be below average for this time of the year, with some areas like western Texas about 30 degrees lower than Tuesday afternoon.

The fire risk will increase with cooler and drier air moving in and the incoming high-pressure system that will set up camp behind it. It will be breezy and windy, and these strong winds could propagate any fires that get started. Make sure to avoid fires and anything that could ignite them, such as throwing cigarette butts out the window or parking over dry vegetation where the tail pipe of your car could ignite the vegetation and start a fire.

Tonight into Thursday morning will be the coldest night for much of Texas. Lows will drop to the mid-to-upper 40s across Southeast Texas, with lows in the low-50s closer to the coast. Forties will be the norm all the way north to northern Texas and between the upper-40s and low-50s across South-Central Texas. These temps, in true Texas fashion, especially for this time of the year, will not last too long. There will be a warming trend, but staying around normal values through the weekend.