The Austin area is expected to get between 1 to 1½ inches of rain from Wednesday night to Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

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The winter storm is beginning to get underway in the western half of Texas this morning, where it's producing a mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain, as depicted in the radar snapshot below. This wintry weather will only become more widespread through the day as it heads east toward northern Texas,