Election Day Softens to Code 63 and a Cooler 70 in Dallas–Fort Worth — but Tonight's Line Reaches I-35 by 10 P.M.
The evening feed takes some of the alarm out of Tuesday — moderate rain instead of heavy rain, a high of 70 instead of 75 — while the overnight window firms up: storms building north and west now, the I-35 corridor by 10, and out before the morning commute.
Start with what changed. The station's live feed, read early Monday evening, now codes Election Day as moderate rain (code 63) at a 67 percent chance, with a high of 70.3 and a low of 56.3 — a step down from the heavy-rain code 65 and 75-degree high the same feed carried at midday, and a full turn from Monday's warmth: at the evening read it was still 80.2 degrees, feeling like 82.4, on a day that topped out at 84.1. Behind the front, Wednesday comes back dry and cooler — 73.3 with a low of 52.1 and no rain in the feed.
Tonight is still the event. FOX 4's evening outlook has storms developing to the north and west between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and moving closer to the I-35 corridor by 10 p.m., with damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph as the primary threat, quarter-size hail and localized flooding also possible — the same shape CNN's updated file carries, with severe thunderstorms continuing overnight across the central and southern Plains including Dallas–Fort Worth and a few tornadoes possible. The exit matters as much as the entrance: FOX 4 expects the rain out of the immediate Metroplex by the 4 a.m. commute, with strong northwest winds up to 25 mph drying the area behind the front.
For voters, that timing is the story. The worst of the weather is an overnight problem, not a polling-hours problem for most of the Metroplex — though FOX 4 notes voters in eastern and southeastern counties, stretching into East Texas, may still see rain when polls open at 7 a.m., and CNN flags ponding on roads as the Election Day travel risk from eastern Texas eastward. The practical order of the day writes itself: the line tonight, a wet start only at the region's eastern edge, and a cooler, drying Election Day behind it.
