Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Fort Worth Spinks Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 1 AM (50%).
Now. Fort Worth Spinks Airport is 66° and light rain at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:11 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Fort Worth Spinks Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18L / 36R unlit | 3,660 ft | 60 ft | Grass | 180° / 0° | 15 mph head, on 36R | 5 mph from the left |
| 18R / 36L | 6,002 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 15 mph head, on 36L | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Fort Worth - Spinks (FWS), Fort Worth Spinks Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 10 PM Thursday; 90 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 65 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 5 PM Thursday to 94% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 32 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.15 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.16 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 8 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 19 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 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Fort Worth - Spinks: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Fort Worth Spinks 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/686 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
CLEAR FORK TRINITY RIVER 2 S Lake BenbrookBNBT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/702 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burleson 1.3 SETX-JN-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/772 ft/72 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BenbrookBBRT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/782 ft/82 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.