Austin Halloween Weather: Overcast and 77 for Game Day, and Election Day's Rain Chance Jumps to 71 Percent
The station's live feed lifted Tuesday's rain chance 13 points overnight, to 71 percent — the wettest Election Day signal yet — while Halloween itself stays mild and dry, and the clocks fall back tonight.
Election Day got wetter overnight. The station's live weather feed, powered by Open-Meteo and read by this desk before dawn, now puts Tuesday's rain chance at 71 percent — up from the 58 percent in the station's overnight file — with rain (code 53), a high near 77.6 and a low of 65.6 for the hours when Travis County's 201 vote centers are open, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters who can choose their hour should plan around it, and everyone should plan on the umbrella.
Halloween itself holds the mild line. Austin sits at 66.4 degrees and overcast before dawn, and the feed has eased today's code from drizzle to plain overcast (code 3), with a high of 77.1, a low of 65.6 and rain chances at just 4 percent. The 6:30 p.m. Texas-Mississippi State kickoff and the evening's trick-or-treating both run dry and comfortable in the 70s sliding toward the mid-60s.
Tonight brings the clock change: daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, clocks turn back one hour, and Sunday starts foggy (code 45) before a high near 80.5 with rain chances at 3 percent. Monday runs warm, near 87.8, with light rain possible at 6 percent, before Tuesday's wet front arrives.
Wednesday clears behind the rain — sunny, near 75.7 — and the rest of the week runs mild and mostly dry, highs near 79 to 82. The desk refreshes the Election Day picture with the morning files; at 71 percent, Tuesday is now the week's one confident rain call.
