At an airfield/0.0 mi away/98 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Wharton Regional Airport until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 78° after 91° today.
Now. Wharton Regional Airport is 79° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 69° 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 Wednesday, near 89°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:23 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 29 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Wharton Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 58 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 5,004 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 151° / 331° | 5 mph head, on 14 | 5 mph from the left |
The 3 instruments nearest Wharton Regional 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 now1 instrument
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/98 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wharton 0.3 ETX-WH-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/98 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
El CampoECMT2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/118 ft/18 ft above 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.