AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The recent weather in Central Texas has felt more like late summer than early autumn. Does the longer summer feel mean that falls are getting warmer? That's likely but it still remains to be seen. What is possible is that the first freeze is likely to arrive later not only in Central Texas but across the country.

Our media partners at Climate Central did an analysis of 204 cities to determine if the freezes are arriving earlier or later. In the interest of transparency, it should be noted that Austin was not one of the cities analyzed.

The study determined that the first freeze is arriving later in 179 of the cities analyzed. That's 88%. The delay in the arrival of the first 32° temperature in fall or winter is, on average, as much as twelve days.

That first freeze is a

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