Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Dallas Love Field until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dallas Love Field is 64° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 3 AM. 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 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Dallas Love Field, Texas.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13L / 31R | 7,752 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 136° / 316° | 12 mph head, on 31R | 8 mph from the right |
| 13R / 31L | 8,800 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 136° / 316° | 12 mph head, on 31L | 8 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Dallas/Love Field (DAL), Dallas Love Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 10 PM Thursday; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 73 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 71% saturated; the humidity ran from 37% at 4 PM Thursday to 87% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 30 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.14 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 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
Dallas/Love Field: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Dallas Love Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/486 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grand Prairie Alert Wx StationGWHT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/515 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
University Park 3.1 WNWTX-DA-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/522 ft/35 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RichardsonRRNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/650 ft/163 ft above 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.