📰 MIDDAY NEWS BRIEF 📰
Election Day storms, NWS says • Dry Halloween night 👇
📆 October 30th, 2026AD
🔥 MIDDAY HEADLINES
1. ⛈️ Election Day storms, NWS says
2. 🔄 UPDATE: Recall hearing 1:30 p.m.
3. 🔄 UPDATE: Dry Halloween night
4. 🔄 UPDATE: Early voting tops 2022
🌤️ MIDDAY WEATHER
🌡️ CURRENT: 68° with a few clouds at the Granbury airport at 11:15 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
☀️ THIS AFTERNOON: A chance of showers (40%), mainly after 1 p.m., cloudy, high near 74°.
🌙 TONIGHT: A 50% chance of showers, low around 59°.
⏱️ NEXT 12 HOURS: noon–3 p.m. showers possible, 71°–72° • 3–6 p.m. showers possible, 73° to 72° • 6–9 p.m. showers possible, 72° to 65° • 9 p.m.–midnight 64°
⚠️ HAZARDS: No active National Weather Service alerts for Hood County at the late-morning check. Hood County is not under a burn ban.
📅 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Saturday: chance rain showers then mostly cloudy, 74°/61°
Sunday: partly sunny, 81°/66°
Monday: partly sunny then chance showers and thunderstorms, 84°/61°
🚗 TRAFFIC
🚧 Loop 567 filming between FM 4 and Highway 377: stops of up to 10 minutes, 7 a.m.–7 p.m. through Nov. 3. Overnight closures start Thursday, Nov. 5. Both directions close 6 p.m.–6 a.m. that night and on Friday, Nov. 6.
🚧 FM 4 bridge replacement: one-way signal control remains listed. Expect delays and use the posted detour.
🚧 Pearl St. westbound near Loop 567: DriveTexas lists the right lane closed for road repair until 6 p.m. today. Expect slow traffic.
🏛️ MIDDAY LEAD
⛈️ STORMS COULD REACH TEXAS BY ELECTION DAY
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth says a strong cold front could bring a line of storms to North and Central Texas. Models range from Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon, so timing is uncertain.
A few storms could be strong to severe, with damaging wind the main threat and perhaps hail. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Hood County forecast: Monday, a 40% chance of storms after 1 p.m., high near 84, gusts to 30 mph. Monday night, a 70% chance, gusts to 35 mph. Tuesday, a 20% chance of showers, high near 75.
⚖️ GOVERNMENT + COURTS
🔄 UPDATE: RECALL HEARING STILL SET FOR TODAY
As of 11:37 a.m., the Hood County District Court register lists Judge Bryan Bufkin's remote 1:30 p.m. hearing today on Intervenor Kellie Chewning's application for an expedited writ of mandamus.
The application concerns the recall calendar. A joint motion to continue is also listed for 1:30 p.m. HCE has seen no ruling on it, so check before planning around the hearing.
🤝 LOCAL PRIDE
🔄 UPDATE: HALLOWEEN EVENING LOOKS DRY
The hourly National Weather Service forecast for Granbury shows a 0% chance of rain from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday and 3% through the evening, with 75° at 6 p.m. and 69° by 9 p.m.
Showers are possible earlier in the day, mainly before 10 a.m. Saturday.
NEWS FROM AROUND TEXAS
🔄 UPDATE: TEXAS IN-PERSON EARLY VOTE TOPS 2022
In-person early voting reached 31.4% of Texas registered voters through Oct. 28, compared with 22.4% at the same point in 2022, TexPolls reports from Texas Secretary of State data.
That is 9 percentage points higher. TexPolls also lists 239,109 mail ballots, with more still arriving, for 6,218,876 early ballots so far. Early voting ends today.
✅ BOTTOM LINE
⛈️ Storms could arrive Monday night into Election Day (Tue., Nov. 3).
🎃 Halloween evening looks dry; the 1:30 p.m. recall hearing is set today.
Hood County Express — Est'd 1/26 🚂
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