Austin Overnight Weather: Thursday's Rain Has Backed Off to Overcast at 78, Friday's Showers Hold and Election Day Keeps Its Storm Chance
Austin's night reads 72.1 degrees and overcast on the station's live feed. Thursday no longer codes for rain — it is an overcast day at 78 with a 34 percent rain chance — while Friday stays cool and wet at 70 and Election Day Tuesday keeps its thunderstorm code at 44 percent.
Austin is starting Thursday mild and grey: 72.1 degrees in the first hour of the day, feeling like 78.2, under overcast skies on the station's live weather feed.
Thursday itself has changed since the late-evening files. Where the feed coded Thursday for rain on Wednesday night, it now calls the day overcast, with a high of 78.3, a low of 66.9 and a rain chance of 34 percent — a drier, calmer Halloween-eve setup for the city's Thursday plans, though a stray shower is not ruled out.
Friday remains the week's cool, wet turn: rain showers, a high of just 70.5 and a low near 65, with a 37 percent rain chance, on the last day of early voting and the night before Halloween. Saturday is coded for drizzle at 77.3 with a 37 percent chance, and Sunday — the first day after daylight saving time ends — is overcast and essentially dry, high 83, rain chance 2 percent.
Next week opens warm and closes the election under a storm watch of a different kind. Monday runs to 87.8 with rain showers at 24 percent, Tuesday — Election Day, November 3 — keeps the thunderstorm code with a high near 76 and a 44 percent rain chance, and Wednesday clears to sunshine at 76.1. The Weather Desk will update Thursday's rain timing in the morning file.
