Will Subtropical Storm Nicole affect Election Day weather? What the forecast says

While people on Florida’s east coast should start preparing for Nicole’s expected landfall this week, possibly as a Category 1 hurricane, you don’t have to worry about the system messing up your voting plans.

Nicole is forecast to hit Florida late Wednesday or early Thursday. That’s after Election Day, which is on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

And it looks like Mother Nature wants you to cast your ballot. The weather is forecast to be nice for much of Tuesday. And the odds of needing an umbrella at the polls are slim.

The National Weather Service’s forecast is calling for Tuesday to be mostly sunny in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach counties with a high in the 80s.

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There’s a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, likely in the afternoon. The forecast is calling for a 20% chance of rain Tuesday in Miami-Dade and the Keys, with a 30% rain chance in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Rain chances are expected to pick up Tuesday night, mostly after 8 p.m., which means your election watch party might get drenched. The polls close at 7 p.m.

This story was originally published November 7, 2022 at 11:51 AM.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription