Dallas–Fort Worth Monday Morning: 67 and Overcast Again, and Election Day's Rain Chance Climbs to 63%
The brief clear break before dawn is gone. Monday stays warm and dry at 82, but Tuesday's showers — over the 7-to-7 voting day — have firmed for the third file in a row.
Dallas–Fort Worth starts the last full day before the election at 66.8 degrees, feeling like 69.5, under an overcast sky — the mainly-clear break the feed showed in the small hours has closed back in. Monday itself is unchanged in outline: overcast, a high of 82.2, a low of 66.2 and a 28 percent rain chance. It is a warm, workable Monday for the last day of campaigning, commuting and errands, with no rain expected to decide anything about it.
Tuesday is where the movement is, and it keeps moving the same direction. The feed codes Election Day as rain showers — code 81 — with a 63 percent chance, a high of 75 and a low of 59.6. That is up from 60 percent at this desk's 03:04 file and 58 percent overnight: three consecutive files, three upward revisions. The reading is not an all-day washout — it is that some part of the Metroplex will very likely see rain at some point during the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. voting day, and voters planning around a dry hour are planning around a forecast that has stopped offering one. Wednesday behind the front is dry and overcast at 72.9 with a rain chance of zero.
The rest of the week holds the pattern set over the weekend: Thursday carries the light-drizzle code at a 4 percent chance on a high of 78.4, Friday prints 75.2, Saturday 78.1, and next Sunday turns clear and cooler at 68.9. For Monday morning, the practical summary is short: a grey, warm start, a dry day ahead, and an Election Day for which the umbrella advice has only gotten stronger with every file this desk has published since Saturday.
