Dallas–Fort Worth at Dawn: 68 and Mainly Clear, Monday Warms to 82, and Election Day Showers Firm to 60%

Dallas–Fort Worth reaches sunrise on the last full day before the election at 67.6 degrees, feeling like 70.2, under a sky the live feed now codes as mainly clear — the first break in an overcast that held through the whole of Sunday night. Monday itself still reads as the week's warm interlude: overcast returning, a high of 82.3 and a low of 66.3. One number in Monday's line has moved since this desk's overnight file: the rain chance has risen from 17 percent to 28 percent. It is still a dry day by any working definition, but it is no longer a no-rain day by definition, and anyone scheduling the last day of campaigning, commuting or errands should know the trend is upward, not down.

Tuesday is the day this desk has watched all weekend, and its outline has stopped moving. The feed codes Election Day as rain showers — code 81 — with a 60 percent chance, a high of 75 and a low of 59.6. That is two points firmer than the overnight file's 58 percent, on a slightly warmer high. The practical reading has not changed since Saturday: some part of the Metroplex will likely see rain at some point during the voting day, an all-day washout is not what the feed shows, and Wednesday behind the front is dry and overcast at 72.9 with a rain chance of zero.

The rest of the week is quiet with one new entry: Thursday now carries a light-drizzle code against a 4 percent rain chance, the first drizzle code in this run of files, on a high of 78.4. Friday prints 75.2, Saturday 78.1, and next Sunday turns clear and cooler at 68.9. The forecast's message for North Texas, two hours before the Monday commute, is the one it has carried all weekend with the edges sharpened: a warm Monday with a rising rain chance, a showery Tuesday that asks voters to bring an umbrella rather than stay home, and nothing in either day that should decide anything else.