Widespread dry weather and a lack of snow and ice will favor Americans gettingto the polls for Tuesday's national midterm election.Dry weather, virtually all of it being warmer than usual, will dominate theWest Coast, the Intermountain and the Great Plains.
In Southern California, some of the valleys will warm well into the 90s thanksto bright sunshine and an offshore wind.
A minor exception to the dryness will be that of spotty showers in the PacificNorthwest, but even these should leave by the afternoon.
Meanwhile, rain-free conditions will also prevail across all the major citiesof the Midwest, the Northeast and the Middle Atlantic. It will be cool, evenrather cold, from Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh east to Philadelphia, NewYork and Boston.
Southern rain and thunderstorms will present the one widespread instance ofweather that could deter a high voter turnout. Heaviest and steadiest rain willpelt Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas into eastern Texas, Alabama andnorthwestern Florida.
A few showers and storms will also pop up in Georgia, the Carolinas and FloridaPeninsula.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews
