Austin Late Weather: Election Day's Low Jumps to 68 Degrees Ahead of Its Storms, and Saturday's Rain Chance Climbs to 43 Percent
Thursday ended cooler than it felt at sunset, and the feed's late read rewrote two nights that matter: Election Day now storms out of a 68-degree night instead of a 64-degree one, and Halloween Saturday's drizzle chance rose again, to 43 percent.
Thursday is in the books, cooler at the finish than the evening suggested. The station's live feed, read at about 8:07 p.m., shows Austin at 69.6 degrees and overcast, feeling like 72.8, with the day closing at a high of 74.7 and a low of 67.2 - the low a full degree below the 68.2 the 6 p.m. file carried, on the light-drizzle code that hung over the day's second half.
Friday, the last day of early voting, kept its rain and gained a degree: still coded 61, rain, with the precipitation chance unchanged at 57 percent, but the high nudged up from 70.7 to 71.5 and the low held at 63.7. Seven Travis County sites vote until 10 p.m. Friday under those odds.
Saturday kept climbing the wet way. The late feed codes Halloween as moderate drizzle at a 43 percent chance, up from 40 percent in the evening read and 34 percent in the afternoon, with a high of 79.1 and a low of 64.0. Sunday behind it warmed - overcast and dry at 85.1 degrees with a low of 68.4 and a 3 percent chance - and Monday was re-coded from overcast to drizzle at 87.6 degrees, a 22 percent chance and a low of 69.5.
The biggest single move sits on Election Day. Tuesday still carries the thunderstorm code and the same 54 percent chance, a high of 77.9 - but its low jumped from 64.8 to 68.0, which makes it a warm, humid storm setup rather than a cool one, the kind of night where the rain arrives with the front instead of behind it. Wednesday behind that front is now coded clear, a high of 75.9, a low of 63.0 and a 2 percent chance. All figures are single-feed reads and will be re-read in the morning cycle.
