Houston Weather at 3 P.M. Monday: 81.8 Degrees and Mainly Clear - but Election Day's Code Flips to Heavy Rain (65) as Its High Jumps to 83.2
The afternoon read holds Monday mainly clear at 81.8 degrees, feeling like 85.2. The story is tomorrow: Election Day's code flipped from moderate drizzle (53) to heavy rain (65), its high rose to 83.2, and voters should now plan for a wet trip to the polls. Wednesday then clears to partly cloudy with a 57-degree morning, the week's coolest.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 81.8 degrees under a mainly clear sky (code 1) at 3 p.m. on Monday, feeling like 85.2, according to the station's live weather feed - up about a degree from the 1 p.m. read, on a Monday whose daily line is overcast (code 3) with a high of 82.4, a low of 70.4 and a 4 percent rain chance.
Election Day is where the feed changed its mind. Tuesday's code flipped from moderate drizzle (53) to heavy rain (65) - the strongest rain code on this week's board - while its high jumped from 80.0 to 83.2 and its low settled at 62.3, with the rain chance easing slightly, 48 to 45 percent. After three straight files softening Tuesday's drizzle, the 3 p.m. read hardens it instead: Harris County voters heading to polls that open at 7 a.m. should expect a genuinely wet day and build in the extra minutes.
Wednesday then swings the other way: partly cloudy (code 2), a high of 80.7, the rain chance zeroed out from 15 percent, and a morning low of 57.0 - the coolest reading of the week, nearly three degrees under the last file. Thursday and Friday hold at rain showers (code 81), 74.6 and 77.1 degrees, with chances of 35 and 30 percent.
The weekend's odds rose in this read: Saturday and Sunday both sit overcast at 79.3 and 79.7 with rain chances lifted to 28 percent each, up from 17 and 16. This desk reads the feed again this evening, with Election Day's heavy-rain code the number to watch.
