Heavy rain moved across Central Texas late last night and early this morning. Most of us saw between one and three inches... but areas between Fredericksburg and Burnet saw five to nine inches. The bull's eye was centered over Sandy Creek near Kingsland, where over nine inches of rain fell! This rain moved into Sandy Creek and into Lake LBJ... and will filter down into Lake Travis. The Pedernales River also saw between four and six inces of rain, which will also go directly into Lake Travis. The level of Lake Travis before the rain started was just above 632'. After the rain, the LCRA is forecasting the lake to reach 644' by the weekend! Most of the heaviest rain fell below Lake Buchanan, so the rise is only forecast to be about a foot by the weekend.

Below, I have captured the rainfall totals from actual LCRA rain gauges. The colorized areas under the totals are the rainfall estimates by the doppler radar. Note the yellow, orange and red colors over the Hill Country... that's the zone of those six to nine inch totals!

We get a few days of nice fall weather, then a couple of cold fronts arrive on Monday and Wednesday with more rain!

Scott Prinsen