Austin Weather, Monday Night: 77.7 Degrees and Mainly Clear, and Election Day Turns to Rain Showers at a 71 Percent Chance
Austin cleared to mainly clear skies at 77.7 degrees on Monday night - and the station's live feed now calls Election Day a rain-showers day, code 81, at a 71 percent chance with a cooler high of 75.3.
Austin's Monday ended clearer than it spent the day. The station's live Open-Meteo feed, read at 9:04 p.m., put the city at 77.7 degrees, feeling like 80.2, under weather code 1 - mainly clear - at the close of a day that topped out at 84.8 with a low of 65.6 and a 3 percent precipitation chance.
Election Day is the wet day of the week, and the feed firmed it up on Monday night. Tuesday, November 3 now carries code 81 - rain showers - with a 71 percent precipitation chance, a high of 75.3 and a low of 59.6. That is a step up in certainty from the 19:04 read (code 63, 70 percent, high 77.0): the chance is a point higher, the code is a showers code, and the high is nearly two degrees cooler. Voters heading to polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. should plan on showers at some point in the day.
Wednesday dries out and stays mild - code 2, partly cloudy, a high of 76.3, a low of 54.3 and no precipitation chance in the feed. Thursday keeps the week's odd line: code 95, the thunderstorm code, with a high of 80.6 and a low of 63.6, but a precipitation chance of only 7 percent - carried exactly as the feed states it.
The rest of the week runs cooler and mostly dry: Friday overcast at 70.9 and 58.1 with a 3 percent chance, Saturday overcast at 72.9 and 58.4 with the chance at 29 percent, and Sunday mainly clear at 74.7 and 59.0 with a 14 percent chance. The next scheduled weather file is Tuesday's 05:00 Election Day file, which will carry the shower picture as the polls open.
