Election Day in Dallas–Fort Worth Now Codes as Heavy Rain: the Station Feed Moves Tuesday to Code 65 as Tonight's Storms Approach
Monday late morning brought the escalation in the station's own numbers — 78.7 degrees and climbing, tonight's severe window intact, and Tuesday's Election Day forecast upgraded from drizzle to heavy rain at a 62 percent chance.
The calm part of Monday is ending on schedule, and the station's own live feed now says so in stronger language than it used this morning. Read late Monday morning, the feed showed 78.7 degrees under a mainly clear code, feeling like 80.7, with Monday topping out at 81.9 on a 28 percent precipitation chance. Tuesday — Election Day — now carries weather code 65, heavy rain, at a 62 percent precipitation chance, with a high of 75 and a low of 57. At the 09:04 read the same day coded 53, drizzle, at 61 percent; the upgrade from drizzle to heavy rain is the feed's own verdict on what the overnight front leaves behind for voters.
CNN Weather's updated Monday file, crawled less than an hour before this cycle, supplies the system behind the numbers. The storm that dropped multiple months' worth of rain on the Southwest — forcing evacuations in at least a dozen counties across parts of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico — is pushing into the Plains and Midwest, with severe thunderstorms possible Monday afternoon into the night across the central and southern Plains, including Dallas–Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Wichita. Damaging winds are the primary threat and a few tornadoes are possible. On Election Day the storm loses some strength, CNN reported, but rain will impact voters from the Great Plains and Upper Midwest south through the Mississippi Valley to the western Gulf Coast, with key races in eastern Texas among those dealing with wet conditions, and voters traveling to the polls could encounter ponding on roads.
FOX 4's Dallas timing, reported earlier today, still frames the local window: storms developing between 4 and 6 p.m. to the north and west, reaching the I-35 corridor by about 10 p.m., with gusts to 60 mph and quarter-size hail possible, and the rain out of the immediate Metroplex by the 4 a.m. commute — though voters in eastern counties may still see rain when polls open at 7 a.m. Behind the front the feed turns dry and seasonal: Wednesday 72.9 with no precipitation expected, Thursday 79.4, Friday 73.9, and a clear Sunday at 70.7. The practical read for Election Day in Dallas–Fort Worth is unchanged in shape and stronger in degree: tonight is the severe window, Tuesday morning is the wet one, and the afternoon dries.
