Austin Weather, Tuesday Early: 74.8 Degrees and Overcast, and Election Day Rain Stands at 74 Percent
Polls open into the wettest day of the week: rain (code 65) at a 74 percent chance, a high of 75.5 and a low of 59.6, before Wednesday clears.
Austin goes into Election Day warm, grey and wet. The station's live Open-Meteo feed, read this cycle, put the city at 74.8 degrees, feeling like 78.1, under overcast skies (code 3) in the early hours of Tuesday, on a day that will top out at just 75.5 and bottom out at 59.6.
Tuesday itself carries rain (code 65) at a 74 percent chance - the same figure the late Monday file carried, and the highest of the week. Voters heading to polls that run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. should plan for rain at some point in the day rather than a dry window the feed does not promise.
The pattern breaks quickly behind the election. Wednesday is partly cloudy (code 2) at 76.3 and 54.3 with no rain chance, Thursday has stepped down from Monday night's thunderstorm code to a drizzle code (51) at 77.3 with a 20 percent chance, Friday turns overcast at 74.3, Saturday stays overcast at 74.8, Sunday is mainly clear (code 1) at 76.8, and next Monday is overcast at 78.3. No severe-weather signal appears in the seven-day feed read this cycle.
