Austin Weather, Monday Evening: 82.5 Degrees and Overcast, and Election Day's Rain Chance Climbs Back to 67 Percent

Austin closed out the last day of the campaign warm and overcast. The station's live Open-Meteo feed, read at 5:04 p.m., put the city at 82.5 degrees, feeling like 85.7 under weather code 3 - overcast skies - on a Monday that topped out at 84.8 with a low of 65.6 and just a 4 percent precipitation chance. The clouds that closed in during the afternoon are still in place this evening, and the feed holds the night dry.

The number that matters is Tuesday's. Election Day now carries weather code 65 - rain - with a precipitation probability of 67 percent, a high of 77.0 and a low of 59.3. That is a firmer read than the 60 percent and code 63 the feed carried at mid-afternoon, and it continues the day's pattern: the closer Election Day gets, the more committed the feed is to rain on it. Travis County polls run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and voters heading out Tuesday should plan for wet trips in both directions, with the rain chance spread across the day rather than parked in one hour.

Behind the rain, the week clears and cools. Wednesday turns mainly clear - code 1 - with a high of 77.7, a low of 53.6 and no precipitation chance at all. Thursday and Friday stay overcast but dry in practice, highs of 73.5 and 72.5 with chances of 7 and 3 percent. Saturday's overcast carries the week's only other real rain chance, 29 percent with a high of 74.5, and Sunday closes overcast and warmer at 79.5.

For Monday evening itself there is nothing to work around: no rain in the feed, warm air, and a grey sky over the final rallies and the last campaign stops. The story of the week is a wet Election Day followed by the coolest, clearest morning of the stretch on Wednesday - results weather, in every sense.