Temperature
60 F at 7 PM; 76 F at its warmest, 9 PM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 9 AM.
- Now
- 60F
- 7 PM
- Highest
- 76F
- 9 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 59F
- 9 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Addison Airport, Texas
Small airport in Dallas County, Texas59°
64°/59°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 59°·Moderate breeze 16 mph N
Now. Addison Airport is 59° and mostly clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:08 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
42%Humidity
22%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
59feels59
16mph
Today
Oct 16
6459
21mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6749
14mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7149
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7651
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8157
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8460
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8663
overcast
59°
64°59°
67°49°
71°49°
76°51°
81°57°
84°60°
86°63°
As of 8:00 PM in Addison Airport, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Addison Airport
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 14 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- ModerateMonOct 19
- ModerateTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Addison Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Addison Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- ADS
- ICAO
- KADS
- IATA
- ADS
- Field elevation
- 644 ft
- Serves
- Dallas
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- ADS
- Wind now
- From 10° at 15 mph, read 16 Oct, 19:49
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 7,203 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 160° / 340° | 13 mph head, on 34 | 8 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Dallas/Addison Arpt (ADS), Addison Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 36 F, the air 40% saturated; the humidity ran from 30% at 2 PM to 85% at 11 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 36F
- 7 PM
- Humidity now
- 40%
- Humidity, range
- 30 to 85%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
15 mph from the north at 7 PM; at its strongest 29 mph, 8 AM, with a gust of 40 mph at 8 AM.
- Now
- 15mph
- from the north
- Strongest
- 29mph
- 8 AM
- Highest gust
- 40mph
- 8 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.48 inHg at 7 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.37 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.48inHg
- 7 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.37inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,000 ft at 11 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,000ft
- 11 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 16
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Dallas/Addison Arpt: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Addison Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/643 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ELM FORK TRINITY RIVER 2 NE Lake LewisvilleLEWT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.2 mi away/564 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Addison 0.8 ETX-DA-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/614 ft/30 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RichardsonRRNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/650 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Addison Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Addisontown, 1 mi
- Farmers Branchcity, 4 mi
- Carrolltoncity, 4 mi
- Hebrontown, 5 mi
- Richardsoncity, 6 mi
- Planocity, 8 mi
- Coppellcity, 8 mi
- University Parkcity, 9 mi
- The Colonycity, 9 mi
- Highland Parktown, 10 mi
- Lewisvillecity, 11 mi
- Irvingcity, 11 mi
Airports near Addison Airport
- Dallas Love FieldDAL, 9 mi
- Dallas Fort Worth International AirportDFW, 13 mi
- Dallas Executive AirportRBD, 20 mi
- McKinney National AirportTKI, 20 mi
- Grand Prairie Municipal AirportGPM, 22 mi
- Rockwall Municipal AirportF46, 23 mi
- Mesquite Metro AirportHQZ, 23 mi
- Arlington Municipal AirportGKY, 26 mi