Austin Sunday Late-Night Weather: the Sky Clears to 74 Degrees, and Election Day's High Falls to 74.6 With Rain Still Likely
The grey ceiling that hung over Austin all Sunday is gone - and the Election Day forecast changed with it. Tuesday is still a rain day, but a cooler one: a high of 74.6 instead of 79.1.
Austin's Sunday ended under a clear sky. The station's live weather feed, read late Sunday night, November 1, showed 74 degrees and clear skies (code 0), feeling like 78.4 - a sharp change from the overcast (code 3) that covered the city at the 19:04 update, when it was 78.8. Sunday's confirmed range was a high of 85 and a low of 61.8, with a 1 percent precipitation chance. Monday turns overcast again (code 3) at a high of 82.5 and a low of 66.5, with a 3 percent rain chance.
Tuesday - Election Day - is still the week's weather story, but it cooled tonight. The day remains coded as rain (code 65), yet the high fell from 79.1 to 74.6 in this update and the precipitation probability eased from 75 to 71 percent, with a low of 66. Travis County's 201 Election Day vote centers are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and anyone in line at 7 p.m. still votes - a cooler, wet Election Day is now the planning assumption. Wednesday follows overcast and dry at 78.3 with a 0 percent rain chance.
The back of the week barely moved. Thursday stays mainly clear (code 1) at 82.4 with a 3 percent rain chance, Friday is overcast at 81 with a 4 percent chance, and Saturday keeps its thunderstorm code (96) at 82.4 degrees with a 14 percent precipitation probability - the storm signal the Weather Desk flagged at 19:04 is still on the board, and the desk will track whether it builds through the week.
