Houston Weather at 9 P.M. Monday: 75.3 Degrees and Mainly Clear, and Election Day's Heavy Rain Eases to Dense Drizzle
The night read holds at 75.3 degrees under a mainly clear sky - and Tuesday finally moves. Election Day's code eased from heavy rain (65) to dense drizzle (55) at 82.7 degrees with the rain chance still 39 percent, while Wednesday flipped to overcast and cooled to 78.3. Thursday's thunderstorm code (95) still waits behind them.
HOUSTON - Houston stood at 75.3 degrees under a mainly clear sky (code 1) at 9 p.m. on Monday, feeling like 81, according to the station's live weather feed - the same temperature as the 7 p.m. read, with a thin veil of cloud replacing the fully clear sky and the feels-like reading up from 79.8. Monday's daily line closes overcast (code 3) with a high of 82.4, a low of 70.4 and a 4 percent rain chance.
Election Day is the change voters will feel. Tuesday's code eased from heavy rain (65) to dense drizzle (55) - still a wet Election Day, and the rain chance did not move at 39 percent - but the character of the rain softened in this read, with the high trimmed from 83.2 to 82.7 and the low from 62.3 to 62.0. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; this desk's advice narrows to an umbrella rather than a plan change, on the current code.
Wednesday took the bigger swing: partly cloudy (code 2) gave way to overcast (code 3) and the high fell from 81.8 to 78.3, though the rain chance stayed at zero and the morning low, 57.9, remains the week's coolest. Nothing behind Wednesday moved: Thursday holds its thunderstorm code (95) at 82.4 with a 35 percent chance, Friday holds drizzle (53) and the week's coolest high, 73.7, at 30 percent, and the weekend holds at 76.5 Saturday and 75.6 Sunday, each at 28 percent.
This desk reads the feed again before the polls open. Tuesday's drizzle code is the softest Election Day reading of the day - whether it holds through the morning is the overnight question.
