Here’s the National Weather Service Forecast for Election Day

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Here’s the National Weather Service Forecast for Election Day

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Unlike many Election Days of the past, the weather across America will not, with a few small exceptions, affect the ability of people to vote. The amount of precipitation will be small. Temperatures will not be extremely different from normal for this time of year, although they will be slightly above normal in the central part of the country.

The only place significant rain is expected is where it rains most often in the Continental United States. Much of Washington state and northern Oregon will have modest precipitation. Also, there will be a trace of snow in parts of Maine and northern parts of New Hampshire and Vermont early in the day. (See the National Forecast map below.)

The temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s across much of the country, from Washington state and Oregon to Illinois and Indiana. The same temperatures will range from Idaho across the Canadian border to as far east as Wisconsin. It will be in the 60s and 70s through much of Texas and east through most of the Gulf states to north Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, up into Virginia. (See the National Temperature map below.)
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The weather will be in the 30s and 40s in parts of the Midwest, particularly northern Michigan. The temperatures will be in the 50s along the Atlantic Coast, from New Jersey to southern Maine, where they will dip into the 40s.

The only places the temperatures will be near freezing are across northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

The hottest places in the country will be inland in California, from the area northeast of San Francisco down to the area east of Los Angeles. The warmest spots in the country, where it will be in the 90s, run from southwest California into the western parts of Arizona. The traditionally hot portion of southern Florida will have temperatures in the 70s.

As for major cities and the areas around them:

  • Boston: raining early and then clearing and in the high 40s
  • Charlotte: sunny and in the mid-60s
  • Chicago: sunny and in the 60s
  • Columbus: sunny and in the high 50s
  • Denver: sunny and in the 70s
  • Detroit: sunny and in the mid-50s
  • Houston: sunny and in the 70s
  • Jacksonville: sunny and in the low 70s
  • Los Angeles: sunny and in the 70s
  • Miami: sunny and in the high 70s
  • New York: sunny and in the low 50s in
  • Philadelphia: sunny and in the mid-50s
  • Phoenix: sunny and in the mid-90s
  • St. Louis: sunny and in the high 60s
  • Seattle: raining and in the high 50s
  • Washington, D.C.: sunny and in the high 50s

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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