This day in history

This day in weather history: October 29, 2026

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Date	Camp Mabry HI	Camp Mabry LO	Rain	ABIA HI	ABIA LO	Rain
2025	69	53	None	69	51	None
WIND ADVISORY for most of the area and all of the Austin metro for the afternoon through early evening. Gusts up to 45 mph in a post frontal environment with a stiff northerly flow. Sunny all day and the coolest highs since April 6 in Austin (ATT)
2024	90	73	None	90	71	Trace
RECORD HIGH TIED AT ATT (1938) AND RECORD HIGH BROKEN AT AUS (88 IN 1956 AND 2004). RECORD WARM LOW AT ATT (72 IN 2004). Widespread stratus with spotty showers as southeasterly flow upped the moisture with dew points returning to the 60s and even some 70s. Sun broke through for the afternoon and mixed with clouds.
2023	78	41	0.24	78	43	0.16
Late-PM lows. Strong cold front arrived late morning dropping temperatures from the 70s to the 60s and 50s within an hour or two. Wind gusts out of the north ranged from 20-35 mph and increased at night. Scattered streamer showers ahead of the front, isolated to scattered showers as the front passed and then some overrunning rain returned during the evening. Temperatures were in the 40s areawide during the evening with wind chills near or below freezing in the Hill Country by 9 p.m.
2022	72	56	None	71	57	None
Mostly cloudy to overcast with breezy NW winds at times. Clearing into the evening.
2021	76	55	None	75	56	None
Another breezy day with north wind gusts 30-35 mph under cloudless sunshine. RH in Austin falls below 15% with DPs in the 20s. Great fall weather!
2020	64	40	None	64	40	None
Mostly clear and cold start. Gusty north/northwest winds kicked in early and stayed through the majority of the day on the backside of low. Gusts: 30-40mph. Sunshine and dry skies area-wide. Less wind and chilly by evening.
2019	57	49	.08	60	50	.01
Overcast, light fog, periods of drizzle, mist and light rain with some thunderstorms in Fayette County where 1-1.5"+ falls. Coldest day since March 5th. Overrunning pattern with front becoming stationary south and east of area.
2018	84	62	None	85	54	None
Low clouds, some fog early, becoming partly sunny and very warm. Upper high pressure ridge remains over the state.
2017	76	39	None	75	32	None
2ND EARLIEST FREEZE ON RECORD AT ABIA and record cold morning. Upper 20s and low 30s for almost all of the area, save for the metro. Winds turn out of the southwest for a marked warm-up during the afternoon. Beautiful, clear day with low humidity. Phillippe degrades to remnants in the Atlantic off the coast of the Carolinas.
2016	86	64	None	85	59	None
Patchy fog/mist reported in the morning. Clouds clear out for a beautiful, mainly sunny afternoon.
2015	81	51	None	82	47	None
Chilly early, with a couple of 39 degree lows in Hill Country, and mainly 40s elsewhere. A warm afternoon, under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. Increasing clouds during the evening.
2014	81	67	None	81	65	None
Overcast behind early AM cold front, but clouds decrease during the day. NNE winds and not as warm.
2013	84	71	None	85	70	None
Overcast to mostly cloudy. Showers and a few isolated t-storms move into the Hill Country from the southwest during the evening. Strong southerly flow ahead of large upper low over the western U.S.
2012	70	40	None	71	34	None
HURRICANE SANDY--LARGEST, MOST DAMAGING HURRICANE TO STRIKE THE NE U.S. MAKES LANDFALL AT 7 PM NEAR ATLANTIC CITY, NJ AS A CAT. 1, 80 MPH STORM. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE, 946 MB, 27.93 INCHES, EQUALING 1938 HURRICANE AS MOST POWERFUL EVER TO STRIKE NE U.S. Massive flooding, record storm surges, wind damage and power outages over several states. Storm becomes post-tropical hybrid superstorm as it reaches the coast, merging with massive nor'easter. Blizzard conditions in Appalachians of WV. Clear and coldest morning of the fall, with lows of 29 in several rural areas of Hill Country and Big Sandy Creek in NW Travis Co, and several locations at or below freezing including Barton Creek, Jollyville, and other NW Travis County locations. A pleasant afternoon.
2011	68	44	None	69	35	None
A chilly start. Sunny all day. Light winds.
2010	73	50	None	73	40	None
Chilly early. Sunny all day.
2009	82	56	0.19	86	57	0.06
Scattered showers/t-storms, mainly along and east of metro counties ahead of cold front that brings gusty NW winds and falling temperatures. Isolated showers continue into the evening east.
2008	77	43	None	81	33	None
Record low at ABIA. Chilly morning with some locations in the Hill Country and other rural, low lying areas dipping down below freezing. Clear skies all day long. Warm in the afternoon.
2007	77	51	None	75	45	None
Clear and nice. TS Noel flooding kills 20 in Hispaniola.
2006	80	49	None	79	42	None
Clear and cold morning, sunny and warm afternoon.
2005	77	50	None	77	43	None
Sunny and warm, a little more humid.
2004	86	72	None	88	70	None
Record high tied at ABIA. Cloudy AM, becoming mostly sunny and breezy by afternoon.
2003	84	54	None	82	45	None
Some high clouds, otherwise mostly sunny and cool early, but warmer than normal in the afternoon.
2002	76	53	None	73	49	None
Patchy a.m. fog, otherwise mostly clear and nice.
2001	75	48	None	76	39	None
Some high clouds, otherwise, mostly sunny and nice. 16th straight day without rainfall.
2000	85	71	Trace	83	69	Trace
11 consecutive days with precip (last occurred Aug. 22-Sept. 1, 1996). Mostly cloudy with afternoon sunbreaks. .50" overnight rain totals in San Saba, Lampasas and Burnet counties.
1999	86	63	Trace	86	57	Trace
Mostly Sunny with southerly winds. Tropical Storm Katrina is born and then dies to tropical storm over Nicaragua.
1998	81	69	None
Morning clouds, then partly cloudy and warm. Mitch weakens to tropical storm and drifts south into Honduras.
1997	73	57	0
Mostly cloudy.
1996	79	64	none
Lake Travis rises 11ft to 668
1995	71	57	0.05
cloudy all day
1994	78	53	none
sunny to partly cloudy
1993	70	40	0.44
cold front 2:30pm; rain; windy; 70 degrees at noon, wind chill in teens at 10pm
1992	86	71	0.87
thick clouds, warm and humid; numerous thunderstorms and showers develop in afternoon; several storms (non-severe) about 10pm
1991	82	49	0.56
very strong cold FROPA about 10am; rain and thunderstorms over all of area with rains of up to 4" in Hill Country; wind gust over 35 and strong CAA after FROPA; high in the morning
1990

1989	83	66	none