Austin Halloween Afternoon Weather: 73.2 and Overcast at the Day's High, and Election Day Thunderstorms Still at 73 Percent
Austin has reached its Halloween high - 73.2 degrees under a solid gray deck - with a dry night ahead for kickoff and trick-or-treating, a warmer Sunday, and a thunderstorm signal still parked over Tuesday's election.
Austin's Halloween afternoon is gray, mild and dry. The station's live weather feed, powered by Open-Meteo and read at about 2:05 p.m., put the city at 73.2 degrees, feeling like 79.9, under overcast skies - and 73.2 is now the day's high on the feed, with the low tonight at 65.6 and rain chances at just 4 percent.
That settles tonight's two big outdoor plans. The 6:30 p.m. Texas-Mississippi State kickoff at DKR and downtown's Halloween crowds both run under the same overcast, low-rain-chance pattern, cooling toward the mid-60s after dark - and when the night ends, the clocks fall back at 2 a.m., returning Austin to standard time.
Sunday runs overcast and warmer, a high near 81.4 and a low near 62.2 with rain at 3 percent. Monday is the week's warm day, a high near 87.9, before the pattern breaks.
Tuesday, November 3 - Election Day - still carries the week's weather story: a thunderstorm code on the feed's day line, a high near 78.2, a low near 68.4 and rain chances at 73 percent. Travis County voters who have not yet voted should plan a wet trip to the vote centers and extra time to get there. The Weather Desk's next full file lands at 17:00.
