Election Day Weather in New York City: Dry, Overcast and Near 69 Degrees
The station's live feed puts Election Day at a high near 69 with only a 4 percent chance of rain — the warmest, driest voting weather the city could reasonably ask for in November. Rain waits until Thursday.
New Yorkers voting on Tuesday will not have the weather as an excuse. The station's live Open-Meteo feed puts Election Day under overcast skies with a high near 69 degrees, a morning low around 46, and a precipitation chance of just 4 percent — dry from the 6 a.m. poll opening through the 9 p.m. close.
Monday comes first, and it is a fine day in its own right: clear and 45 degrees in the early morning, feeling closer to 40, on the way to a high near 64 with a 2 percent chance of rain. Voters running Monday's one errand — the last in-person mail-ballot application at a Board of Elections office — will do it in shirtsleeve afternoon weather by recent standards.
The pattern holds through Wednesday, which stays dry near 66, before the week turns: the feed brings rain showers in on Thursday with a 52 percent precipitation chance and a high near 65, and Friday carries a 60 percent chance. Anyone with outdoor plans left in the week should front-load them into the same window the voters get.
For Tuesday itself, the practical forecast is a light jacket at the early-morning poll sites and nothing else to plan around — no rain gear, no storm delays, and a mild evening for the walk home after the last ballots are cast.
