Election Day Rain Chances Firm Up: Showers at 47 Percent Tuesday, Wednesday Up to 57 in the Mid-Morning Feed
Monday stays dry and mainly clear into the mid-morning at 70 degrees, but the station's live feed has firmed up Election Day: rain showers at a 47 percent chance on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday's front.
Pensacola's Election Day eve is holding dry. The station's live weather feed (Open-Meteo), read at 9:36 a.m., put the city at 70.4 degrees and mainly clear, on its way to a Monday high of 76.2 with a rain chance of just 2 percent - a clean, dry day for the last of the pre-election errands and the FEMA registration points' Monday sessions.
The change in this file is Tuesday. Where the morning feed carried Election Day as drizzle, the mid-morning feed now calls Tuesday rain showers - weather code 81 - at a 47 percent chance, with a high of 76.5 and a low of 70.8. That is not a washout forecast, but it is wet enough that Election Day voters should plan for showers at some point in the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. voting window: an umbrella in the car and a few extra minutes for the drive to an assigned precinct.
Wednesday remains the week's wettest day, and the feed's number is climbing: a 57 percent drizzle chance in this read, against the National Weather Service's stronger line for the area - showers and possibly a thunderstorm at an 80 percent chance as a strong cold front pushes through, with the severe threat low. The two pictures are carried side by side and attributed, as this desk has done all week: the feed is the more conservative of the two on Wednesday, and the front behind it still brings the week's real change - cooler, drier air and nighttime lows falling into the 40s by Friday night, in time for the Blue Angels homecoming weekend.
