Night Falls at 71.4 and Mainly Clear: Election Day's Icon Turns to Drizzle, Wednesday's Front Holds at 68 Percent
Pensacola goes to sleep mild and mainly clear. Tuesday now carries a drizzle icon at 34 percent in the station feed, the Weather Service keeps its rain after the polls close, and Wednesday is still the week's weather day.
Monday is closing quietly over the bay. The station's live weather feed (Open-Meteo), read at 7:38 p.m., put Pensacola at 71.4 degrees, feeling like 72.4, under mainly clear skies with a rain chance of just 2 percent - the tail of a day that topped out at 76.5 and never seriously threatened the Election Day eve plans stacked across two counties.
Election Day's picture shifted in one small, honest way since the evening file: Tuesday's icon in the feed is now drizzle, where it read overcast at 5 p.m., on the same numbers - a high of 77.5, a low of 69.5 and a 34 percent rain chance. The National Weather Service's North Escambia forecast keeps the voting hours themselves kinder: a 20 percent chance of showers after noon under partly sunny skies near 80, with the real chance - 50 percent, thunderstorms possible - arriving after 9 p.m., when the polls have been closed for two hours. Read together: a mainly dry vote, a damp drive home for the late counters, and an umbrella that earns its place in the car rather than the line.
Wednesday remains the hinge. The feed holds Wednesday at a 68 percent rain chance on a warm 84.1 ahead of the cold front; the Weather Service calls showers likely with a possible thunderstorm at 70 percent, the severe threat low. Behind it the week cools in steps - Thursday 83.5, Friday 81.2 with a 17 percent drizzle chance, Saturday 81.8, Sunday 76.2 with a low of 59 in the feed - while the Weather Service brings inland lows into the 40s by Friday night, the cool, mostly sunny backdrop the Blue Angels homecoming weekend is counting on.
