Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Eagle Lake Airport until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Eagle Lake Airport is 74° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 63° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:16 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Eagle Lake Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 59 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 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 Fri 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 | 4,280 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 171° / 351° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Eagle Lake (ELA), Eagle Lake Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 10 PM Thursday; 89 F at its warmest, 4 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 72 F, the air 91% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 8 mph, 7 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 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 3,100 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 15 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
Eagle Lake: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Eagle Lake 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
Eagle LakeELA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/186 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Attwater National Wildlife RefugeANWT2
In a park or preserve/5.6 mi away/180 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Prairie View #1S2016
At a soil climate station/39.0 mi away/270 ft/86 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Garwood 0.7 NWTX-CLR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/160 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Colorado River At ColumbusCBST2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/187 ft/3 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.