Houston Weather at 1 P.M. Monday: 80.9 Degrees and Mainly Clear - Thursday's Code Flips to Rain Showers as Its High Jumps to 74.6
The afternoon read cleared one step further: 80.9 degrees, feeling like 85.2, under a mainly clear sky (code 1). Election Day eased again, to a 48 percent drizzle chance. The real movement is Thursday, whose code flipped from dense drizzle to rain showers (81) while its high rose 3.2 degrees to 74.6 - and Friday joined it at code 81.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 80.9 degrees under a mainly clear sky (code 1) at 1 p.m. on Monday, feeling like 85.2, according to the station's live weather feed - up 1.1 degrees from the 11 a.m. read, with the sky code clearing from mainly clear's neighbor (2) to mainly clear itself (1).
Monday's own line barely moved: overcast in the daily code (3), a high of 82.5, a low of 70.4 and a rain chance ticked up from 2 to 5 percent. Tuesday - Election Day - eased for the third straight file: moderate drizzle (code 53) at 48 percent, down from 50, with a high of 80.0 and a low of 61.6 for voters heading to polls that open at 7 a.m.
The week's back half is where the feed rewrote itself. Thursday's code flipped from dense drizzle (55) to rain showers (81) and its high jumped from 71.4 to 74.6, with a low of 68.0 and a 35 percent rain chance - no longer the week's cool outlier, and wetter in kind, not just in odds. Friday moved to rain showers (81) as well, at 77.1 degrees and 28 percent.
Wednesday stays overcast at 80.7 with the week's coolest morning low, 59.5, and a 15 percent rain chance. The weekend cooled in the new read: Saturday is overcast at 79.3 (down from 83.6) and Sunday overcast at 79.7, with rain chances of 17 and 16 percent. This desk reads the feed again this evening.
