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Around noon today is meteorologist Troy Kimmel’s expectation, when temperatures could plunge as much as thirty degrees in a few hours–preceded by one to two inches of the rain that’s been falling since Friday morning: "Although some are still delaying the arrival of this much colder air in the local area until Sunday, I simply don’t see it. The sheer weight of the dense arctic cold air will continue to push it south to arrive in the Austin area sometime in the midday hours Saturday. Temperatures in the prefrontal environment will be in the 60s to near 70 F.. but these temperatures will fall quickly to near 40 during the afternoon Saturday." Winter, it seems, is finally here, if only for a few days. Hope the rain keeps up. We need it.