Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Waco Regional Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Waco Regional Airport is 66° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:14 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Waco Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 7,107 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 14° / 194° | 18 mph head, on 01 | 12 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 5,103 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 149° / 329° | 22 mph head, on 32 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Waco (ACT), Waco Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 10 PM Thursday; 91 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 62 F, the air 62% saturated; the humidity ran from 38% at 3 PM Thursday to 96% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 1 AM Thursday, with a gust of 26 mph at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 900 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 14 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Waco: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Waco Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WacoACT
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/509 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
BOSQUE RIVER 8 W Waco LakeACTT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/486 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RieselS2199
At a soil climate station/22.5 mi away/539 ft/23 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Waco 5.7 NWTX-MCL-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/518 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waco LakeACTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/433 ft/83 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.