After storms passed through New Braunfels and Comal County Wednesday night and Thursday, a wet pattern will remain in the area forecast Friday with increasing chances for precipitation Friday night through Saturday night, according to the National Weather Service.
Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms are forecast Friday through Saturday night, with some pockets of local heavy rainfall possible.
âA stalled cold front along with an upper-level low-pressure system along far southwest Texas, combined with Gulf moisture that we have moving in is helping our rain chances,â said Eric Platt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office at New Braunfels Regional Airport.
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New Braunfels Regional Airport recently earned a designation as a national airport within the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The designation places the airport as one of only 11 such national airports in Texas and one of 92 such airports in the United States.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, or NPIAS, identifies 3,310 existing and proposed airports included in the national airport system, consisting of all commercial service airports, all reliever airports and certain publicly owned general aviation airports.Â
General aviation airports are public-use airports that do not have scheduled service or have less than 2,500 annual passenger boardings.Â
The unusually sunny and warm weather South Central Texas has enjoyed the past several days will disappear by Wednesday, setting the stage for Old Man Winterâs return over the weekend.
âWe are expecting very cold temperatures over the weekend, especially by Sunday and beyond,â said Mack Morris, a National Weather Service meteorologist based at New Braunfels Regional Airport.
The first of three cold fronts is forecast between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, dropping high temperatures from the 70s into the 40s overnight. Wednesdayâs high should reach the mid 50s with rain chances increasing from 50% to 70% overnight into Thursday.