Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Denver City Airport until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Denver City Airport is 55° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 21 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is possible Thursday (31%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:33 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 12:00 AM in Denver City Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hobbs (NM), 24 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, 0.79 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 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,780 ft | 50 ft | Asphalt | 43° / 223° | 20 mph head, on 04 | 9 mph from the left |
| 08 / 26 unlit | 3,960 ft | 45 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 8 mph head, on 08 | 21 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Denver City (E57), Denver City Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
55 F at 10 PM Thursday; 70 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 55 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 54% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 9 AM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
25 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 25 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 48 mph at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.41 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.13 inHg over 3 hours; 0.40 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 3 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.42 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.27 in, in the hour to 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Denver City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Denver City 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 now1 instrument
Denver CityE57
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/3,570 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Denver City 0.2 ETX-YK-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/3,584 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Denver CityDNVT2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/3,560 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Denver City (DNVT2), 1.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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