Election Day Dawns Warm in Miami-Dade: Rain Chance Up a Tick to 33 Percent, and Wednesday Is the Wet Day
Overnight, the station's live feed nudged Tuesday's rain chance up from 27 to 33 percent — still a mostly dry voting day at 82 degrees — while Wednesday's showers at 57 percent remain the week's real weather.
Miami-Dade votes on a warm, mostly dry Tuesday. The station's live weather feed, read at this cycle's late-night staging, puts the overnight low behind us and Election Day at a high of 82.3 degrees with a low of 75.1, under code-3 overcast skies — and with one small overnight change worth knowing before you pick a time to vote: Tuesday's precipitation chance has ticked up to 33 percent, from the 27 percent this desk reported in its evening file. That is a nudge, not a washout — two chances in three that any given hour stays dry — but it is the direction of travel, and a brief shower during the morning or evening voting rushes is a fair possibility.
The week's actual wet day is Wednesday. The feed holds Wednesday at weather code 82 — rain showers — with a 57 percent precipitation chance, a high of 80.5 and a low of 73.2, before Thursday settles back to overcast skies and a 36 percent chance, and Friday turns nearly dry at 4 percent with drizzle codes. In other words, the weather story of election week in South Florida is not whether Tuesday gets rained out — it does not, on the current feed — but that the region dries its feet on the day itself and gets its soaking the morning after the votes are cast.
The voting facts that pair with the forecast are unchanged and worth the overnight repeat. Polls are open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at each voter's assigned precinct — not at any early-voting site — and anyone in line at 7 p.m. may still vote. A vote-by-mail ballot still at home must be received by 7 p.m. Tuesday, and only at Elections Headquarters in Doral or the Downtown Branch Office; it cannot be dropped at a precinct. Election Night results begin posting at approximately 7:15 p.m., starting with the mail and early-voting totals.
For the morning voter, the practical read of tonight's feed is simple: go early and the weather is unlikely to be part of your Election Day story — 75 degrees and dry-feeling at the 7 a.m. open, warming into the low 80s — and if a shower does find a line, it should be the brief, passing kind. Wednesday is the day to keep the umbrella by the door.
