Austin Weather, Monday Afternoon: 82.9 Degrees and Overcast, With Election Day's Rain Chance Holding at 60 Percent
A warm, grey election eve gives way to a rainy Tuesday at the polls - 77 degrees with a 60 percent rain chance - before Wednesday clears and cools.
Austin's election eve is warm and grey. The station's live Open-Meteo feed read 82.9 degrees under overcast skies at mid-afternoon Monday, feeling like 85.2, on the way to a high of 83.8 with a low of 65.6 and just a 5 percent chance of precipitation for the rest of the day.
Election Day is the wet day of the week. Tuesday brings rain - weather code 63 on the feed - with a high of 77.0, a low of 59.3 and a 60 percent precipitation chance, a figure that has eased through the day from 66 percent at midday and 61 percent in the early afternoon read. Voters heading to the polls between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. should still expect showers to be part of the trip.
The rain clears quickly behind the vote. Wednesday turns mainly clear with a high of 77.7, a low of 53.6 and no precipitation expected, and Thursday stays overcast and cooler at 73.5 with a 6 percent rain chance. The rest of the week holds in the low-to-mid 70s - 72.5 Friday, 74.5 Saturday with the week's second-best rain chance at 19 percent - before Sunday warms back to 79.5.
