Houston Weather at Midnight: 69 Degrees and Overcast, Halloween Tops Out at 80, Election Day Thunderstorms Sit at 72 Percent
The Halloween forecast has eased again overnight - an overcast 80-degree Saturday with rain at 36 percent - while Tuesday's Election Day thunderstorm signal strengthens to 72 percent.
HOUSTON - Houston starts Halloween at 69 degrees under overcast skies, feeling like 71, on the station's live Open-Meteo feed at midnight. Saturday's high reaches 80 with a low of 68.7 and a 36 percent precipitation chance under the same overcast code - a continued easing from Friday's files, which at their wettest had Halloween on a thunderstorm code; the current feed holds the day at overcast with a one-in-three rain chance, so costumes and the outdoor events on the city's Halloween calendar should plan for a possible shower, not a washout.
Sunday turns to a fog code (45) with a high of 81.1, a low of 68 and rain down to 9 percent - a damp, grey start to November, and the morning the clocks fall back. Monday is the week's warm, dry peak: overcast, 85.8 degrees, rain at just 3 percent, and the last calm day of the stretch.
Election Day is the file's headline. Tuesday carries code 96 - thunderstorms - with a high of 84.1, a low of 66.1 and the precipitation chance up to 72 percent, the strongest storm signal in the seven-day read. Anyone planning to vote on Tuesday rather than in the early-vote period that closed Friday should expect a wet trip to the polls and build in time for it. Behind the storms, Wednesday clears to code 0 and cools sharply - high 75.7, low 61.8 - before Thursday and Friday return to overcast in the low 80s.
