Temperature
65 F at 10 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 65 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 65F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 79F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 65F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Roy Hurd Memorial Airport until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 79° today.
Now. Roy Hurd Memorial Airport is 65° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 54° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Roy Hurd Memorial Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Midland-Odessa (TX), 57 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 2,922 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 19° / 199° | 21 mph head, on 01 | 4 mph from the right |
| 12 / 30 | 4,268 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 127° / 307° | 3 mph head, on 30 | 21 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Monahans (E01), Roy Hurd Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 10 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 65 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 50 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 31% at 2 PM to 100% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
20 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM; at its strongest 21 mph, 8 PM, with a gust of 38 mph at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.31 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.14 inHg over 3 hours; 0.34 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 8 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Monahans: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Roy Hurd Memorial 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
MonahansE01
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,605 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/2,723 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Monahans 6 ENE03047
At a climate reference station/6.9 mi away/2,724 ft/109 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Thorntonville 0.4 NNETX-WR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/2,605 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/2,723 ft/108 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.