Weather forecasters are reporting that a large storm could affect portions of the Midwest to the South to the Northeast during Election Day on Nov. 6.
Some gusty wind and hard rain could be possible.
It added: “Scattered rain and thunderstorms from the Northeast into parts of the Southeast. Some of those thunderstorms could be severe across the South and mid-Atlantic. Some wet snow–or rain changing to snow–is possible from North Dakota to northern Minnesota and Upper Michigan. Light snowfall totals are expected.”
AccuWeather made a similar prediction: Thunderstorms are slated to hit the South and Mid-Atlantic region. What’s more, damaging winds and flash flooding are possible.
Meanwhile, some snow could fall in the Rockies and Cascades.
But forecasters have noted that most of the West Coast and the Plains region will stay dry.
They found that Republican candidates have an “advantage when it rains may be due in part to voters changing their partisan preference that day,” the college said in a news release.
They found that at least 1 percent of voters in the United States who may have voted for a Democrat had the weather been good switched their vote to Republican on rainy days.
“Our study suggests that weather conditions may affect people’s decisions on not only whether to vote but also who they vote for,” Yusaku Horiuchi, a professor of government at Dartmouth and co-author of a study, said in a news release.