Houston's Thursday Evening: 78.2 and Mostly Clear - Saturday's Halloween Rain Eases to a 43 Percent Drizzle, but Election Day's Storm Code Is Back to 96
The evening feed splits the weekend from the week: Halloween now looks damp rather than soaked, while Tuesday's thunderstorm signal - the one voters will stand in - strengthened again.
HOUSTON - Thursday evening is holding the day's shape. The station's live Open-Meteo feed reads 78.2 degrees, feeling like 78.6, under a mostly clear sky (code 1) - just under the day's high of 78.9, with a rain chance of 1 percent and a low tonight of 65.4. Friday, the final day of early voting, stays cooler and overcast on this read: code 3, a high of 75.9 and a low of 63, with an 11 percent rain chance.
Saturday is where the feed improved. Halloween's code eased from 63 - steady rain - to 55, drizzle, and its rain chance fell from 59 percent at the afternoon read to 43 percent, with a high of 84.8 and a low of 67.1. That is not a dry Halloween, and the Weather Desk is not calling it one; it is the difference between planning around rain and dressing for possible drizzle. Sunday follows overcast (code 3) at 86 and 70.2 with a 10 percent rain chance, and Monday keeps its drizzle code (51) at 81.8 with a 5 percent chance.
Tuesday, Election Day, moved the other way. Its code went back from 95 to 96 - a thunderstorm with the hail-risk tag restored on this read - and its rain chance rose a point to 62 percent, still the highest of the seven days, with a high of 80.4 and a low of 67.6. One evening code change is not a forecast locked in, in either direction, and this desk has watched Tuesday's code move three times today; what has not moved is its place as the wettest, stormiest day of the week. Voters planning to vote on Election Day should still leave extra time. Wednesday cools to 72 under code 2 with a 25 percent rain chance.
