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MIAMI WEATHER — THE 5 A.M. FILE

Miami Monday Weather: Rain, Not Showers — Code 61 Is the Third Call in Three Files, and Election Day Is Still the Wettest

The feed now reads 75.9 degrees under a mainly clear sky, but Monday's day code has firmed up to rain (61) at 45 percent, with a high of 82.1 and the week's coolest low, 70.9, behind it.

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Miami Monday Weather: Rain, Not Showers — Code 61 Is the Third Call in Three Files, and Election Day Is Still the Wettest (Miami Watch News)

Miami's Monday has been called three different ways in three files, and the 5 a.m. reading is the firmest yet. The station's live Open-Meteo feed showed 75.9 degrees overnight, feeling like 80.3 under a mainly clear sky (code 1), but Monday's day code is now rain (code 61) — up from showers (code 81) in the 03:25 file and drizzle (code 53) in the 01:25 file — with a rain chance of 45 percent, a high of 82.1 and a low of 70.9, the coolest night of the seven-day run.

The practical difference between the labels is steadiness. A showers day rains in bursts and dries between them; a code-61 day is likelier to settle in. Either way, Monday's commute and school run carry a real chance of a wet trip, and Tuesday's voters get no relief from the pattern: Election Day holds rain showers (code 82) at 60 percent, unchanged from the overnight file and still the highest rain chance of the week, with a high of 81.1 and a low of 73.1. An umbrella at the precinct is not pessimism this year; it is the forecast.

The back half of the week dries in stages. Wednesday carries drizzle (code 53) at 53 percent with a high of 83.1, Thursday and Friday run light drizzle codes (51) at 25 and 8 percent with highs of 83.0 and a week-warmest 85.2, and the weekend settles to 80.7 on Saturday and 82.3 under Sunday overcast (code 3). Vote wet on Tuesday; dry out by Friday.

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