Austin Sunday Weather: 61.3 and Partly Cloudy at Mid-Morning, 84 by Afternoon, and Election Day's High Edges Up to 79
Austin's extra hour started cool and bright. The station's live feed read 61.3 degrees and partly cloudy at mid-morning, Sunday tops out at 84, Monday turns foggy — and Tuesday's Election Day thunderstorms still carry a 69 percent chance, now with a high of 79.
The first morning of standard time felt like it. The station's live weather feed, read at mid-morning on Sunday, November 1, showed 61.3 degrees under partly cloudy skies (code 2), feeling like 62.9 — the low for the day, set after the clocks fell back at 2 a.m. Sunday's forecast is unchanged in shape and still the weekend's best day: a high of 84, sunshine through the afternoon and just a 2 percent precipitation chance.
Monday is the hinge day. The feed keeps fog (code 45) over Austin to start it, with a high of 79.6, a low of 65.5 and a 3 percent rain chance — a grey, slow commute rather than a wet one. The active weather arrives after dark: the Storm Prediction Center's Level 1 of 5 severe risk for most of Central Texas runs Monday night into early Tuesday morning, ahead of the Election Day front.
Tuesday, November 3, remains a storm day in the feed — thunderstorms (code 95) at a 69 percent precipitation probability — but the numbers moved a little overnight: the high is now 79, up from 77.9, and the low is 68.4. For voters the plan in the station's Election Day guide still holds: 201 Travis County vote centers open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., build in a wet spell at some point in the day, and remember that anyone in line at 7 p.m. still votes. Behind the front the week turns cooler at the end — Friday's high drops to 73.4 — after a midweek run back to about 80.
