Houston Weather at 8 P.M.: 70 Degrees and Raining, Halloween Eases Back to Light Rain, Election Day Firms to Code 96
Saturday's code stepped down from thunderstorm 81 to light rain 61 at 52 percent on the 8 p.m. feed - its third grade of the day - while Tuesday's storms firmed and Wednesday cooled by six degrees.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 70.2 degrees, feeling like 75.2, under light-rain code 61 on the station's live weather feed read at about 8:10 p.m. Friday, with a 64 percent rain chance on the hour. Friday closes at 77 over 65.7 with drizzle code 53 and that same 64 percent chance - a wet end to the early-voting day and a wet start to the Halloween weekend, with the East Sam Houston Tollway's scheduled 10 p.m. closure arriving on wet pavement.
Halloween Saturday changed grade for the third time today. The 8 p.m. feed carries light-rain code 61 at 79.4 degrees over 69.9 with a 52 percent rain chance - down from the thunderstorm code 81 the feed posted at 6 p.m., which had itself replaced the light-shower code 63 of the 4 p.m. read. The planning answer has steadied even as the code moved: rain is more likely than not on Saturday evening, but the feed no longer calls it a thunderstorm day. Trick-or-treat routes should still expect wet streets and keep a dry place in reach if a cell builds.
The rest of the board firmed up. Sunday and Monday stay the dry bridge - overcast code 3 at 85.3 and 85.8 degrees, rain chances 4 and 1 percent. Election Day Tuesday firmed to code 96 at 84.1 over 66.1 with a 68 percent rain chance - on the Open-Meteo scale, code 96 is a thunderstorm with slight hail risk, a step up from the plain thunderstorm code 95 the day carried at 6 p.m., and still the highest rain figure of the week. Behind it, Wednesday clears to code 0 and cools sharply to 75.7 over 61.8, the coolest night on the board, before Thursday returns to overcast at 80.2. The Weather Desk updates the file as the feed moves.
