Austin Halloween Night Weather: 75.9 and Mainly Clear for Kickoff and Trick-or-Treating, and Election Day Thunderstorms Hold at 80 Percent
Austin's gray Halloween afternoon has cleared for the night itself: 75.9 degrees and mainly clear at the station's evening read, a dry run-in for the 6:30 kickoff and trick-or-treating, and a thunderstorm line still sitting on Election Day at 80 percent.
The clouds that sat on Austin all afternoon have thinned at exactly the right hour. The station's live weather feed, powered by Open-Meteo and read at about 6:07 p.m., put Austin at 75.9 degrees, feeling like 81.6, under mainly clear skies — up from 74.1 and overcast at the late-afternoon file, and just under the day's high of 76.5. Rain chances tonight are 4 percent, with a low near 65.6.
That is the forecast for both of tonight's crowds: the Texas-Mississippi State kickoff at 6:30 p.m. at DKR and the Halloween crowds downtown and in the neighborhoods get a mild, dry, mostly clear night. When the night ends, the clocks fall back at 2 a.m. and Austin returns to standard time, so Sunday starts an hour earlier by the clock than Saturday did.
Sunday runs overcast and warmer, a high near 81.2 and a low near 63.2 with rain at 3 percent. Monday is the week's warm day, a high near 87.9 under overcast skies, before the pattern breaks on Tuesday.
Tuesday, November 3 — Election Day — still carries the week's weather story, unchanged from the afternoon file: a thunderstorm code on the feed's day line, a high near 78.2, a low near 68.4 and rain chances at 80 percent. Voters who waited out early voting should plan a wet trip to the vote centers on Tuesday and extra time to get there.
