Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Alice International Airport until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 81° today.
Now. Alice International Airport is 73° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:28 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 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Alice International Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 39 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 5,997 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | Calm | Calm |
| 17 / 35 | 4,490 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Alice INTL Airport (ALI), Alice International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
72 F at 10 PM Thursday; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 71 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 68 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
0 mph from the south at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 6 miles at 7 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 2,600 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 15 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
Alice INTL Airport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Alice International 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/177 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/15.9 mi away/67 ft/111 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Kingsville ScanKGVT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.0 mi away/67 ft/111 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alice 1.7 SSWTX-JW-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/213 ft/35 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KingsvilleKGST2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.9 mi away/85 ft/93 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Kingsville (KGST2), 15.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.