Houston's Halloween Rain Chance Jumps to 54 Percent as Saturday Turns Wet; Election Day's Storm Signal Holds at the Week's Highest

HOUSTON - Houston wakes up Thursday to a cleared sky and 65.1 degrees, feeling like 68.2, on the station's live Open-Meteo feed - but the weekend picture has changed overnight. Thursday itself tops out at 77.8 with just a 1 percent rain chance, and Friday holds dry and slightly cooler at 76.7 with a 7 percent chance. Those are the last two days of early voting, and both are umbrella-free. Saturday is the rewrite: the feed now carries rain (code 61) for Halloween with a 54 percent rain chance, up sharply from the 38 percent showers signal in the overnight read, and Saturday's high has been trimmed from 87.8 to 85.1.

Sunday and Monday recover the heat - 86.1 and 87.2, both mostly dry - before the week's real appointment arrives on Tuesday, Election Day. The feed's Tuesday storm code has strengthened from 95 to 96, the thunderstorm-with-hail-risk tier, its rain chance still leads the seven days at 56 percent, and its high has been revised upward to 82.7 from the 76.4 the overnight feed carried - a warmer, stormier Election Day than Wednesday's outlooks suggested. Wednesday behind it clears to a sunny 78.1.

For Houston households, the practical read is simple. Trick-or-treat planning for Saturday evening now needs a rain plan, not just a costume plan: a code-61 rain day at a 54 percent chance is the kind of signal that usually means carrying the umbrella and expecting wet pavement at some point in the day. Voters get their break first - Thursday and Friday are dry - and anyone who can vote early avoids the one genuinely stormy day on the calendar, which happens to be the day the polls matter most.