Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Majors Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Majors Airport is 66° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 2:00 AM in Majors Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 8,030 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | 8 mph head, on 35 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Greenville/Majors (GVT), Majors Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 10 PM Thursday; 86 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 69 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 13 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 26 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.12 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
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 12 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
Greenville/Majors: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Majors 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/535 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Greenville RAWSGELT2
A remote fire weather station/6.1 mi away/528 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Greenville 3.2 STX-HNT-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/547 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Commerce 4SWCMET2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/546 ft/11 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.