Now. Kickapoo Downtown Airport is 61° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:12 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Kickapoo Downtown Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lawton (OK), 55 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
2.05 in in the last 24 hours, 2.50 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 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 4,450 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Kickapoo (CWC), Kickapoo Downtown Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 10 PM Thursday; 71 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 55 F, the air 82% saturated; the humidity ran from 82% at 10 PM Thursday to 99% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 16 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.28 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.33 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Kickapoo: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Kickapoo Downtown 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
KickapooCWC
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/997 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wichita Falls 3.1 SSETX-WT-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/997 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ScotlandSCOT2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/965 ft/38 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Scotland (SCOT2), 13.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.