Now. Childress Municipal Airport is 59° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Childress Municipal Airport, Texas.
Precipitation
0.93 in in the last 24 hours, 3.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 4,425 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 45° / 225° | 18 mph head, on 04 | 8 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 5,949 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 19 mph head, on 35 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Childress Municipal (CDS), Childress Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
60 F at 10 PM Thursday; 67 F at its warmest, 7 AM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 64% saturated; the humidity ran from 64% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 21 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 36 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.37 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.41 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.5 miles at 5 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.79 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.20 in, in the hour to 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Childress Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Childress Municipal 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/1,952 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Childress UsdaCDAT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/1,890 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Childress 4.8 WTX-CHD-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,944 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Childrss Co-Op SiteCXDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/1,932 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Childrss Co-Op Site (CXDT2), 4.0 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:50. 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.