r/Austin • • 1d ago

People saying “False fall”

Stop with the false fall posts and comments omg. “WELL ACTUALLY ITS JUST FALSE FALL SO 🤓🤓🤓” Just let people enjoy the weather, “false fall” isn’t even guaranteed, ppl have no idea what they’re talking about

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u/beepingclownshoes 1d ago

False fall already happened. This is 2 Fall 2 Furious.

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u/terraunited 1d ago

Yeah false fall passed
Next up: Warm Winter

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u/robotdesignwerks 1d ago

Queue the Bill Hicks joke about calling back east in January to tell people youre out by the pool.

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u/rarzwon 1d ago

I've always been partial to "Fall 2 - Thermostat Boogaloo" but the 2 Fall 2 Furious franchise has its high points.

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u/ClitasaurusTex 1d ago

Finally someone with some meteorological sense around here. 

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u/Practical_Nature369 1d ago

Ask Avery

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u/CupcakesAreMiniCakes 1d ago

Avery is on my friend's forever shit list because apparently when my friend's daughter and him were in high school one night she snuck out to see him so she was forbidden from seeing him again, and my friend said he has aged terribly 😂 but their daughter still looks great so I guess fair. Avery lore for real

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u/Phallic_Moron 1d ago

Chlorophyl sticks together, Dom.

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u/AlexanderMahMau 1d ago

Up next: F4ll

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u/_no-its-not-me_ 1d ago

Just don’t put the shorts away is all we’re saying

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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago

Last time we had 5 days in a row without shorts weather, they called it a snowpocalypse

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u/512atxguy 1d ago

You're not the boss of me. I declare today as False Fall Day.

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u/p8pes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Funny story - One year during SXSW there was a small chalkboard of acts playing on 6th by one of the pizza places. It said 2PM: THE FALL — I geeked. Of course they'd do that. I waited. Fitting of the band to pull almost a prank and play on the street. I couldn't believe how smart that seemed.

It ended up not being Mark E Smith or The Fall, at all, but a metal band completely unaware they'd taken the name of the best band of all time. The metal band was okay, though.

False Fall, I declared, back then!

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u/underground_sun 1d ago

FALSE FALL-AH!, surely, delivered via megaphone and/or two mics simultaneously.

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u/p8pes 1d ago

haha! - perfect 🤣

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u/GuyanaFlavor-Aid 1d ago

I remember driving by Waterloo and seeing a banner with their free day shows and it listed The Zombies. Me and my buddy flipped out and then the next day we're talking it down like "if this is some other band that stole the name let's just pretend we knew it and don't act surprised." Turned out to be the actual Zombies though when they were just getting back into doing shows, it was incredible.

But I'm a Fall fan, too, and I'd be pissed, heh.

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u/Shopworn_Soul 1d ago

I love False Fall Day, tho. It's like the one day of every year I don't hate.

So I'll take it.

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u/etizzy 1d ago

False flag fall day!

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u/remix951 1d ago

SO SAY WE ALL

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u/Tallyrandsbreakfast 1d ago

Well, it’s accurate because it’s a false fall.

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u/CountTop8394 1d ago

Fool's Autumn

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u/daGonz 1d ago

Through a freaky Friday-esque event we have a swapped bodies which now I guess makes me you and ipso facto the boss of you. But I will be in accord with our statement, and buy us both pumpkin spice lattes.

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u/THE_MOST_JUMP 1d ago

That’s how they enjoy the weather, bitching about future weather

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u/Initial-Aspect2137 1d ago

I mean, sort of. I'm from NYC, and there's something uniquely  beautiful about a strong false spring. Seeing uniquely flash frozen little colorful buds, one last breath of snow? It's really nice.  False fall means this nice calming cool. You can really get out in the woods and go for a run. You can just take a nice deep cool breath as you get your blood pumping. Then you get to swim again in 90 degree weather for a little longer. It isn't all bad. 

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u/Wisewordsforlater 1d ago

We're back near 90 on Thursday. So this weekend is False Fall.

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u/iRDataNick 1d ago

83, and we live in Texas. Be normal.

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u/nickleback_official 1d ago

Below 90 is fall. Stop pretending you don’t live in Texas.

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u/capthmm 1d ago

They might not actually live in Texas.

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u/Practical_Nature369 1d ago

Cali transplants

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u/__clayton 1d ago

83 counts as fall to me after so many years here

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u/Ok_Abbreviations4455 1d ago

Even ‘near 90’ counts as fall to me. A high of 90 feels a lot different than 103. 

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u/Super_Fightin_Robit 1d ago

It'll also be a DRYer 90. Crisp and dry 90 is a very different feeling than humid as fuck summer 90. 

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago

Yeah, I never understood people complaining when it’s in the 80s. It’s like yeah, we’ve just been in the high 90s for months, what the hell do you want? This is Texas…

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u/lLoveMess 1d ago

I'm showing a high of 79 on Thursday but even 90 would be fine. That's for sure the beginnings of Fall weather and it will get nicer from here.

What a beautiful 10 day forecast we have right now.

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u/Traditional-Set2668 1d ago

Even though the high is literally 80 degrees on Thursday

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u/Wisewordsforlater 1d ago

KXAN 7 day forecast says 89 next Thursday.

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u/Traditional-Set2668 1d ago

Apple weather says 81. You should try Colorado if Texas is too hot.

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u/harland3 1d ago

I'm just an observer, a passerby who overheard this conversation.

I agree with you, the false fall stuff is annoyingly negative and overplayed. But I have to object to your "Get out of my state if you're not like me" rebuttal, that's also negative and overplayed.

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago

Pessimists sound smart and get attention. Optimists are happy.

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u/vancejmillions 1d ago

this isn't false fall...it's amateur autumn

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u/QuietVaquita 1d ago

83 after months of high 90s absolutely counts as fall here. Just do not put the shorts away before Thursday.

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u/SuicidalApendices 1d ago

Temu autumn?

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u/Nonaveragemonkey 1d ago

Texas doesn't do fall. Its summer and not summer.

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u/T0mpkinz 1d ago

It’s a cold front. That’s what it is. That’s how seasons work in Texas.

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u/CrashingBlumpkins46 1d ago

Enjoy your False Fall this weekend OP!

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u/AustEastTX 1d ago

🍁🍂Happy False Fall 🍂🍁 to all who celebrate; may your sweaters be cozy and still fit.

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u/the_snowmancometh 1d ago

Doesn’t matter, had outdoor activities

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u/Melodic_External_571 1d ago

Hey now why don't you let people enjoy their moment of feeling superior to all the dummies who dare to enjoy a little nice weather!

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u/GirlForce1112 1d ago

Uh. It’s going back up to the mid-upper 80s in three days. That’s false Fall. And yes it is guaranteed. Every year.

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u/Initial-Aspect2137 1d ago

Happy False Fall, OP. Enjoy it while it lasts. 🍂

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u/Whombrillow 1d ago

It doesn’t start getting chilly around here until after Halloween.

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u/WallyMetropolis 1d ago

Does someone saying "false fall" cause you to no enjoy the weather? 

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u/PuzzleheadedHorse437 1d ago

Why do you hate our traditions?

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u/swallowtail 1d ago

Why do y'all care so much, just enjoy the weather when its nice. Move if you hate it here. Climate change forked everything up and there's no more predictable pattern to go off of anymore.

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u/RustyTrombone___ 1d ago

Everyone in this thread is annoying as fuck

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u/Practical_Nature369 1d ago

Christmas is 89

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u/Chewbanga 1d ago

Who hurt you? This isn’t serious at all lol 

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u/silly_scoundrel 1d ago

Weather so good KXAN app has a new icon for it that I've never seen before 

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u/Practical_Nature369 1d ago

No fb... avery

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u/Tikikala 1d ago

Have you not seen the Texas seasons meme

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u/lovelaughlexapro 1d ago

🚨new to Austin alert🚨

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago

The entirety of fall in Texas is a “false fall.” You could get 95 degrees on thanksgiving and people would be like “SeE I tOlD yOu” but it’s like… yeah, Texas weather is literally all over the place, all the time. Enjoy the nice days when they’re here but don’t pretend like you are cooler than everyone else because you moved here in 2008 and think you know the Texas weather pattern better than anyone.

Spoiler: nobody knows Texas weather patterns because it’s fucking nuts

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u/smacktalker987 1d ago

Texas weather is literally all over the place, all the time

nah summer is not all over the place, it's the same thing every day for months on end

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago edited 1d ago

You mean like how this summer it rained for like 3 weeks straight?

Edit: this summer to satisfy the pedant

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u/smacktalker987 1d ago

July through September we had 6 days total with rainfall over .1 inch at ABIA

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago

Austin received a total of 11.14 inches of rain during the meteorological summer of 2026 (June through August). [1]
Monthly breakdown at Camp Mabry:
June: 6.50 inches (wettest start, 8th wettest June on record)
July: 4.24 inches (above normal)
August: 0.40 inches (hot and dry) [1, 2]
Overall, the seasonal total came in about 2.76 inches above the historical average.

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u/smacktalker987 1d ago

doesn't negate what I said at all, and you switched the month range

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u/DoesntEnjoySoup 1d ago

Lmao your point was “summer is the same every single day.” My point was sometimes summer will randomly dump water all over you. Both of us made my point, so thanks!

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u/Super_Fightin_Robit 1d ago

Our patterns follow trend lines. Maybe it'll be hot, like before the current cold spell, but it won't be AS hot. 

Maybe it'll be 60 this week, but this one time in 2021 it was 65 and then the next week it was 5 and there so much ice a bunch of people froze to death or from CO poisoning trying to cook at home. 

Then it bounced between 40s and 60s like normal for the rest of the season.

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u/Psychological-Tea998 20h ago

Come back with that energy next week when its 90 again lol

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u/KA-36 1d ago

Ugg…

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u/daadaad 1d ago

Wait for Indian summer. It's predicted to be 90 degrees next Friday.

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u/nameless_sameness 1d ago

It’s almost proper autumnal weather. But wait a few days; it’ll be “false summer.”

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u/meomeo118 1d ago

who care if its false, I am enjoying it too much !

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u/ATXhipster 1d ago

False fall already happened

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u/Lost-Acanthaceaem 1d ago

It ain’t false fall if the golden rod and frostweed are blooming. My bees are very active.

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u/Electrik_Truk 1d ago

"False fall" is just Fall in Texas. That's just how fall is here.

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u/StuBarrett 1d ago

What!? And have people have no meaningful activity in their otherwise meaningless life! WTF do you think social media exists for?

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u/bobshallprevail 1d ago

You seem like a delight...

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u/kill__avery 1d ago

Exactly plus it actually feels like the season for once 👏🏻👏🏻

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u/sleuthfoot 1d ago

People who say this shit are carpet agger recent arrivals who cling to and use what they wrongly believe to be local humor or beliefs.

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u/Vybrosit737373 20h ago

What people really enjoy is not sweater weather but rather opportunities to say how awful everything is.

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u/Virtual_Elephant_730 16h ago

The nonstop complaint about the weather gets me here too. This is what fall feels like here. Next week too when it’s warmer.

People compare it to the northeast or something.

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u/No-Professional-5811 1d ago

I thought you were talking about the Tesla Roadster demo

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u/FlopShanoobie 1d ago

Look, I was wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and flip flops Christmas Day last year.
Just accept the climate is broken, it’s our fault, and however cool it gets over the next 3 months is as cool as fall will ever be again.

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u/Thegiantlamppost 1d ago

If you want a fall season move somewhere else

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u/Billy_Chrystals 1d ago

Oh my sweet false fall child.

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u/stonewall386 1d ago

And you DO know what you’re talking about?

https://giphy.com/gifs/PjU0WtzRVbQUO4qe6v

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u/SoundThin8487 1d ago

Do you not see the irony in you making a comment about other peoples comments about “false fall”?

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u/LillianWigglewater 1d ago

It's just people that think 80 degrees is still summer.

Summer in Texas is upper 90's and 100's. Fall is 80's.

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u/Practical_Nature369 1d ago

It is False Fall, Cali. Born and raised here. Quit spewing hate bc you bought your overpriced house.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/__clayton 1d ago

Ai slop

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u/AustEastTX 1d ago

Why, yes it is. I requested it especially for you.

FYI my entire response is in jest as are most of the folks responding to your post.

It’s all a bit of fun. I wasn’t going to into Canva and whip out an image just a bit of fun.

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u/ATXCaitlin 1d ago

this makes the fact you used ai for this even worse.

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u/AustEastTX 1d ago

I literally can do it myself but it would take me 20 minutes and it was a joke. I hate AI too.

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u/ShopEmpress 1d ago

Obviously you don't if you felt the need to go use it for making a joke. It is still is AI even if you think it was just for fun.

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u/AustEastTX 1d ago

Ok fine. Here, I wasted time on Canva and made this. As far as I’m concerned, if I’m not drawing with my hands I’m using some kind of assistive technology. But this is not AI so 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/catturd6996 1d ago

I wonder how many will turn their heaters on tonight?

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u/JohnGillnitz 1d ago

Eh, yah. If it doesn't happen, that's just False False Fall. As everyone who isn't a greenhorn knows. (Drinks from whiskey jug)

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u/tonupboys 1d ago

The ‘false fall’ commenters are climate change deniers

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u/PureYouth 1d ago

Ngl I am feeling this post quite hard

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u/iMakeUrGrannyCheat69 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well techincally fall/autumn isnt a weather type. Its a time of year.

Astronomical: September 21st/22nd - December 21st/22nd depending on the year

Meteorological: September 1st - December 1st

So, its fall/autumn either way you look at it.

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u/MoiraRose2021 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/13t22jOjxpkAN2
You mean it’s going to get hot again? 😳

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u/stevendaedelus 1d ago

Autumn is a goddamned astronomical season not a bit of weather. Bunch of dorks with the “false fall “ need to go back to Jr. High.