Austin Weather Update: Election Day's Rain Has Eased to a Light Drizzle at 56 Percent, and Monday Opens in Fog at 82.3
Four straight updates held Election Day's rain at 71 percent. The overnight feed finally moved it - down a full category, to drizzle - on the last full day before Travis County votes.
Austin's Election Day forecast changed overnight, and it changed in voters' favor. The station's live weather feed, read in the early hours of Monday, November 2, now codes Tuesday as light drizzle (code 51) with a precipitation probability of 56 percent - a step down from the rain code (65) and the 71 percent chance that held through four straight station updates, including this morning's 01:04 file. Tuesday's high is now 75, with a low of 62.
Monday itself, the last full day before the vote, is unchanged in shape and slightly cooler at the edges: fog (code 45) to open the day, a high of 82.3, a low of 64 and a precipitation chance of just 2 percent. The current reading at the time of this file was 65.6 degrees under a clear sky (code 0), feeling like 69.7 - the clearest and coolest overnight reading of the weekend.
Behind Election Day, the week still settles dry: Wednesday is mainly clear (code 1) at 78.4 with no precipitation chance, Thursday carries a light drizzle code (51) at 82.6 with a 3 percent chance, Friday is overcast at 79.9, and the weekend reads overcast Saturday at 80.4 and clear Sunday at 78.7. For Travis County's 201 Election Day vote centers, open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the practical meaning of the new feed is simple: a damp morning is still possible, but the all-day rain the desk tracked all weekend is no longer what the model shows.
