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Every year, dust from the Sahara arrives in Austin — bringing with it hazy skies, beautiful sunsets and respiratory problems.

Trees closer to leaking city water systems show less evidence of drought stress than their more rural counterparts.

Austin Water said improvements in how it monitors the system and an increase in water line breaks pushed up estimates from last year.

A system of dams and reservoirs was designed to hold in floodwaters. Crews monitor the water coming into the system and figure out when to store or release it downstream to decrease flood risk.

After a statewide blackout in 2021 and a massive Austin outage in 2023, cold weather means energy anxiety for many in Central Texas.

As the Earth warms, Austin has been experiencing hotter temperatures earlier in the year. A heat wave this week could break the record for hottest day recorded in the month of May.

Larger “mats” of the goopy-green algae typically appear floating in creeks or along lakeshores between late May and early August.

Dangerous emissions and increasingly hot days are combining to worsen Austin's air quality.

The Camp Mabry weather station recorded 5 inches of rain from last week's storms. The precipitation “tipped us over the scale for the month of May,” one meteorologist said.

Hailstorms seem to be happening more frequently and the hail appears to be getting bigger. But the reasons for this might not be as obvious as you think.