Early Saturday a cold front will drop through Central Texas. It won’t bring any rain but will help our temperatures this weekend stay around normal in the low 90s.

Northerly winds will also kick up behind the front. We’re in for a windy Saturday afternoon. Those winds could gust up over 25 mph.

Drier air will also move in. There’s a fire threat Saturday. Any fires that start will be hard to control.

Fire Weather Watch

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
355 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS DUE TO A DRY
COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE...

.A DRY COLD FRONT WILL BRING GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS TO
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BEGINNING SATURDAY MORNING AND INCREASING
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROP TO AROUND
20 PERCENT AND 20-FOOT WINDS INCREASE TO 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE
CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO SATURDAY EVENING BEFORE WINDS BEGIN
TO DECREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES RECOVER ABOVE CRITICAL VALUES.

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-072100-
/O.CON.KEWX.FW.A.0003.120908T1700Z-120909T0000Z/
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-
ATASCOSA-WILSON-DIMMIT-
355 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR A DRY COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS...

* AFFECTED AREA...THE FOLLOWING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES...
  LLANO...BURNET...WILLIAMSON...VAL VERDE...EDWARDS...REAL...
  KERR...BANDERA...GILLESPIE...KENDALL...BLANCO...HAYS...
  TRAVIS...BASTROP...LEE...KINNEY...UVALDE...MEDINA...BEXAR...
  COMAL...GUADALUPE...CALDWELL...MAVERICK...ZAVALA...FRIO...
  ATASCOSA...WILSON...DIMMIT.

* 20-FOOT WIND...15 TO 20 MPH.

* HUMIDITY...20 TO 25 PERCENT.

* IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY.
  OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT 1 TO 4 DAYS.
MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS FOR POSSIBLE RED FLAG
WARNINGS.

Also take care to follow the burn ban warnings for many counties across the state.