Austin Friday Evening Weather: Rain Chances Jump to 75 Percent Tonight, Halloween Dries Out at 76, and Election Day Thunderstorms Sit at 55 Percent
The station's live feed turned Friday night wetter after sunset - rain (code 61) at a 75 percent chance - before a dry, mild Halloween, a warm Sunday near 87, and a thunderstorm signal for Tuesday's vote.
Austin's Friday night got wetter after sunset. The station's live weather feed, powered by Open-Meteo and read by this desk Friday evening, put the city at 66.7 degrees and overcast shortly after 8 p.m., on a day that topped out near 70 - and it raised Friday's rain chance to 75 percent, with rain (code 61) in the evening forecast. That is a sharp turn from this afternoon's files, which carried rain chances in the 28 to 33 percent range; anyone heading to Friday-night football or the first night of Halloween weekend should plan on a wet drive home.
Halloween itself still dries out. Saturday's forecast on the evening feed holds at a high near 76.3 with a low near 65 and rain chances down to 17 percent under mostly cloudy skies - dry enough for the 6:30 p.m. Texas-Mississippi State kickoff at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and for trick-or-treating, with a light jacket covering the evening.
Sunday is the warm day of the stretch: a high near 86.6 with rain chances at just 4 percent, before Monday cools slightly to about 84.7 with chances near 25 percent. The clocks fall back at 2 a.m. Sunday, so Sunday evening's sunset arrives an hour earlier by the clock.
The week's remaining weather story is Election Day. Tuesday carries the feed's thunderstorm signal (code 95), a high near 78.5 and rain chances of 55 percent - down from the 95 percent figure in one of this afternoon's model runs, but still the wettest day on the board for voters heading to the polls. Wednesday clears behind it, sunny with a high near 76.8, and Thursday stays dry near 81. The desk updates the Election Day picture with Saturday's files as the storm timing firms up.
