Falfurrias/Brooks County AirportBKS
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/112 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Brooks County Airport, Texas
Small airport in Brooks County, TexasFire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS FRIDAY NIGHT INCREASE WILDFIRE THREAT... .A strong front pushes south through Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley on Friday, with a secondary surge of strong northerly winds arriving late Friday evening into late Saturday morning. Relative humidity values are expected to drop Friday afternoon with little to no recovery into Saturday morning. Any wildfire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread due to strong winds and lower humidity. A Fire Danger Statement or Red Flag Warning may be needed. The National Weather Service in Brownsville has issued a Fire Weather Watch for breezy winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. * WINDS...Northerly 15-25 mph, gusting as high as 35-45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...as low as 25 to 40 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
77°
93°/72°
Clear·
Feels like 77°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Brooks County Airport until 7 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 84° after 93° today.
Now. Brooks County Airport is 77° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 71° 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 90°, and the coolest Saturday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
41Air quality
79%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
77feels77
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9372
13mph
UV 9
Fri
Oct 16
8471
23%
25mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7355
21mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7754
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8260
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8866
19%
Wed
Oct 21
9069
18%
77°
93°72°
84°71°
73°55°
77°54°
82°60°
88°66°
90°69°
As of 9:00 PM in Brooks County Airport, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Brooks County Airport
Index 41, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 60 miles off.
41Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone41Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Brooks County Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Brooks County Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BKS
- ICAO
- KBKS
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 113 ft
- Serves
- Falfurrias
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- BKS
- Wind now
- From 90° at 3 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 unlit | 3,018 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 150° / 330° | 2 mph head, on 14 | 3 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 6,006 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 0 mph head, on 17 | 3 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Brooks 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 now3 instruments
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/27.8 mi away/67 ft/46 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Kingsville ScanKGVT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.0 mi away/67 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Falfurrias 5.0 ENETX-BRK-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/97 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KingsvilleKGST2
At a cooperative observer's station/27.8 mi away/85 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Kingsville (KGST2), 27.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Brooks County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Airport Road Additioncommunity, 2 mi
- Falfurriascity, 2 mi
- Cantu Additioncommunity, 2 mi
- Flowellacommunity, 3 mi
- Premontcity, 10 mi
- Encinocommunity, 19 mi
- Concepcioncommunity, 19 mi
- Rivieracommunity, 20 mi
- Saritacommunity, 20 mi
- Ricardocommunity, 22 mi
- Kingsvillecity, 26 mi
- Realitoscommunity, 30 mi
Airports near Brooks County Airport
- Kleberg County AirportIKG, 24 mi
- Kingsville Naval Air StationNQI, 28 mi
- Alice International AirportALI, 37 mi
- Jim Hogg County AirportHBV, 39 mi
- Nueces County AirportRBO, 48 mi
- Orange Grove Naval Auxiliary Landing FieldNOG, 48 mi
- South Texas International at Edinburg AirportEBG, 53 mi
- Cabaniss Field Naval Outlying Landing FieldNGW, 54 mi