Houston Weather at 1 A.M. Monday: 71.7 Degrees and Overcast - Election Day's Rain Chance Still 84 Percent
Houston starts the last day before the election at 71.7 degrees under a full overcast. Monday itself is the driest day of the week at 81.8 degrees with a 2 percent rain chance; Tuesday - Election Day - still carries the week's one serious rain signal, and Saturday's thunderstorm code has dropped out of the feed.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 71.7 degrees under overcast skies (code 3) at 1 a.m. on Monday, feeling like 77.2, according to the station's live weather feed - a mild, gray start to the final day before the midterm elections.
Monday is as settled as this week gets: overcast (code 3), a high of 81.8, a low of 68.3 and a rain chance of just 2 percent - the lowest of any day in the seven-day feed. It is a clean day for the last errands of the campaign, and for voters checking their sample ballots and vote centers before Tuesday.
Tuesday - Election Day - remains the week's one serious rain day, unchanged in the overnight feed: a high of 80.5 with a low of 69.9, a rain code of 53 and an 84 percent rain chance, on the day Harris County's polls run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The desk's Election Day coverage will carry the morning update before the centers open.
Behind Tuesday, the week has shifted slightly since Sunday night's read. Wednesday is overcast at 80.4 and 65.9 with an 18 percent rain chance; Thursday has cooled to 76.4 with a drizzle code (51) and a 9 percent rain chance; Friday and the weekend return to the low 80s under overcast skies - and Saturday's thunderstorm code from the Sunday feed is gone, replaced by an ordinary overcast read (code 3) at 82.4 degrees.
