At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,054 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hutchinson County Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 67° today.
Now. Hutchinson County Airport is 58° and overcast at 8 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 21 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Hutchinson County Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 41 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.34 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 3,897 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 38° / 218° | 17 mph head, on 03 | 14 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 6,299 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 177° / 357° | 22 mph head, on 35 | 1 mph from the right |
The 4 instruments nearest Hutchinson County 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/3,054 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
CedarCEDT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.0 mi away/3,222 ft/167 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Borger 1.1 NTX-HTH-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/3,088 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sanford DamSDMT2
At a dam/8.7 mi away/3,045 ft/10 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.