Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for TSTC Waco Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. TSTC Waco Airport is 75° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 59° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:13 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in TSTC Waco Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, 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 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17L / 35R | 8,600 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 178° / 358° | 12 mph head, on 35R | None |
| 17R / 35L unlit | 6,291 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 178° / 358° | 12 mph head, on 35L | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Waco (CNW), TSTC Waco Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
78 F at 10 PM Thursday; 91 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 69 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 63% saturated; the humidity ran from 36% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 15 mph, 1 AM Thursday, with a gust of 23 mph at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 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 1,900 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 13 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
Waco: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest TSTC Waco Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WacoCNW
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/469 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
BOSQUE RIVER 8 W Waco LakeACTT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/486 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RieselS2199
At a soil climate station/15.9 mi away/539 ft/69 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Waco 7.4 NETX-MCL-62
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/490 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waco LakeACTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/433 ft/37 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.