Houston Weather at 2 P.M.: 80 Degrees and Overcast, a Drying Halloween Evening, and Tuesday Storms at 88 Percent

Houston's Halloween afternoon is warmer than the morning files projected. The station's live weather feed read 80.4 degrees at about 2 p.m. Saturday under code-3 overcast skies, with a feels-like reading of 89.7 in the humid air - already at the day's high of 80.4, above the 78.7 the feed carried at noon. The day's precipitation figure holds at 36 percent, and the low tonight is 68.1.

For the trick-or-treat hours, the shape of the day is unchanged from the noon file: the midday shower window is the wet part of Halloween, and the evening trends drier, with damp streets rather than a washout the practical expectation. Families heading out at dusk are planning around an overcast, muggy evening in the upper 70s falling toward the upper 60s overnight.

Sunday is the quiet day the week has been promising. Clocks fall back at 2 a.m., and the feed puts Sunday under code-3 overcast with a high of 79.1, a low of 68 and a precipitation figure of just 3 percent. Monday warms further, to 84.5, with light-rain chances of 12 percent - the calm before the week's main event.

That event is still Election Day. The feed holds Tuesday under code 96 - thunderstorms - with a high of 82.5, a low of 68.2 and an 88 percent precipitation figure, the highest of the week. Behind the front, Wednesday turns overcast and cooler at 78 with a low of 62.6, and Thursday and Friday run dry and near 80. Harris County voters with a choice of when to vote on Tuesday should watch Tuesday morning's file; the Weather Desk's next full update is the 17:00 evening file.