Election Day Weather in Palm Beach County: Rain Chances of 60 to 70 Percent as Voters Head to the Polls
The National Weather Service in Miami puts Election Day rain chances at 60 to 70 percent in Palm Beach County, with quick-moving showers on and off through the day and into the early evening, after more than 15 inches of rain fell in Riviera Beach over the weekend.
Voters in Palm Beach County might need to dodge some rain as they head to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. A stalled frontal boundary is pumping rich tropical moisture into South Florida, the Palm Beach Post reported, and the rain chances on Election Day are between 60 and 70 percent in Palm Beach County, according to Chris Fisher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami. Showers are expected throughout the day and into the early evening.
"We're not expecting the flooding rains like what we've seen," Fisher told the Post. "It will just kind of be like some quick moving showers off and on throughout the day." The high on Nov. 3 is in the lower 80s in the Post's reporting; the station's own live feed, read this cycle, put West Palm Beach at 75.2 degrees late Monday night and Tuesday at a high of 80.5 with a 53 percent precipitation chance in the feed's own model - a different product from the weather service's 60-to-70 percent call, with both pointing to a wet voting day.
The wet weekend behind the forecast was extreme: rainfall topped more than 15 inches in Riviera Beach in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2, according to the weather service, and South Florida remained under a flood watch through Monday night, with an additional 1 to 3 inches expected and isolated peaks far higher. The pattern then eases: rain chances on Wednesday, Nov. 4, are about 40 to 50 percent in the Post's reporting, plunging to about 10 percent on Thursday and Friday, and the station feed agrees on the drying trend, at 27 percent Wednesday and 9 percent Thursday.
