AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The recent weather in Central Texas has felt more like late summer than early autumn. Does the longer summer feel mean that fall is 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 analyzed 204 cities to determine if the freezes are arriving earlier or later. However, 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 12 days.

That first freeze is arriving late, at least two weeks later, in 70 cities in the No

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