Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Gainesville Municipal Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gainesville Municipal Airport is 60° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. 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 11:07 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Gainesville Municipal Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Ardmore (OK), 36 miles off.
Highest 80, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.68 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 unlit | 4,307 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 14 mph head, on 31 | 10 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 6,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | 17 mph head, on 36 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Gainesville (GLE), Gainesville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
62 F at 10 PM Thursday; 79 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 60 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 79% at 1 PM Thursday to 97% at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.22 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.22 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 5 PM Thursday; 8 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 800 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 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
Gainesville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Gainesville Municipal 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
GainesvilleGLE
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/840 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ELM FORK TRINITY RIVER 1 N Lake Ray RobertsRRLT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.8 mi away/604 ft/241 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lindsay 0.1 NNWTX-COO-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/807 ft/38 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GainesvilleGAVT2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/673 ft/172 ft below 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.