Austin live weather updates: Power outages continue Thursday; road conditions improving - Austin American-Statesman

Austin Energy expects powerfulness to beryllium restored by 6 p.m. Friday.

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Austin's freezing streak ended Thursday morning, arsenic temperatures are starting to rise, though immoderate areas northbound and westbound of the metropolis proceed to stay astatine oregon conscionable beneath freezing.

Although question conditions are improving, officials are inactive urging caution, arsenic elevated surfaces and different less-driven roads could inactive beryllium slick.

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Meteorologists with the National Weather Service extended the wintertime tempest informing to 10 a.m. Thursday for the Austin metro country and neighboring Hill Country, which brought further freezing rainfall aboriginal successful the greeting that added a airy magnitude of crystal to roads and trees on with thunderstorms to the region.

The forecast brings further risks of powerfulness outages and downed trees, which plagued the metropolis yesterday and inactive impacts implicit 155,000 Austin Energy customers who don't person power. A spokesperson with the inferior institution said it expects full restoration by Friday astatine 6 p.m.

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Temperatures are expected to emergence supra freezing by 8 a.m. connected Thursday, with a accidental of reaching 42 degrees by the afternoon. Liquid rainfall is expected to proceed passim the morning, but the day is predicted to beryllium overmuch drier with small to nary accidental of precipitation.

The extended wintertime tempest informing affects Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, portion Caldwell and Bastrop counties volition beryllium nether a wintertime upwind advisory. Initially, forecasters acceptable the informing to extremity by 6 a.m., but a tempest strategy implicit West Texas pushed east, causing for much precipitation, the National Weather Service said.

City officials, including the politician and metropolis manager, are holding a property league Thursday greeting astatine 9 a.m., which tin beryllium live-streamed here.

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Austin Texas roadworthy conditions

Before the informing ends astatine 10 a.m., roads volition proceed to stay unsafe arsenic tiny amounts of crystal could signifier connected the pavement, particularly connected elevated surfaces, overpasses and bridges.

The Texas Department of Transportation's road information map shows astir of the crystal that's blanketed throughways passim the portion to beryllium clear. The section is advising people against traveling this morning.

"At this point, astir of the roads are successful beauteous decent signifier wrong the city," said Keith White, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio. "Some of those elevated roadways oregon lesser traveled roads could inactive person immoderate slick spots for the adjacent mates of hours. But we bash deliberation that temperatures volition proceed to emergence done the greeting and for the astir portion by 10 a.m. question conditions for astir of our areas should beryllium successful beauteous bully shape."

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Austin Energy powerfulness outage update

Widespread powerfulness outages person been ongoing since yesterday, arsenic crystal weighed down histrion limbs and vegetation, causing them to drawback and interruption powerfulness lines.

Austin Energy tweeted that it was capable to reconstruct powerfulness to immoderate overnight, but that different outages occurred and lightning and upwind concerns were making it hard for crews to work. The inferior institution said yesterday that outages could past for 12 to 24 hours.

"The upwind is going to amended contiguous and tomorrow," said Austin Energy spokesperson Matt Mitchell. "So we expect that each customers volition beryllium restored by tomorrow."

In addition, postulation signals are besides retired passim parts of the region. Officials said if you travel to a halt with downed signals, dainty it arsenic a four-way stop.

5:46 a.m.: About 29% of Austin Energy customers are without power, arsenic 1,200 outages are affecting implicit 156,000 customers.

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AFD responds to aggregate fires overnight

Austin firefighters were called retired to 10 operation fires overnight, 2 of which were caused by down powerline, the section said successful a tweet. In total, Austin Fire said it was called to astir 370 instances of arcing wires.

Austin airdrome cancellations

Austin-Bergstrom expects a engaged time connected Friday, with an estimated 41,000 travelers and urged radical to amusement up astatine the airdrome 2.5 hours earlier their flight.

Airlines person canceled 84 flights into our retired of Austin-Bergstrom arsenic of 5:40 a.m. connected Thursday, with 24 delayed, according to Flight Aware.

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