Temperature
45 F at 4 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 3 PM Friday, and 45 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 45F
- 4 AM
- Highest
- 60F
- 3 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 45F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 68° after 60° today.
Now. Gregory M. Simmons Memorial Airport is 45° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 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 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 12:16 AM after midnight. 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 4:00 AM in Gregory M. Simmons Memorial Airport, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.90 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Mon 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Measured here
Every hour from Cisco (GZN), Gregory M. Simmons Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 4 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 3 PM Friday, and 45 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 3 PM Friday to 100% at 5 AM Friday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the north at 4 AM; at its strongest 28 mph, 11 AM Friday, with a gust of 39 mph at 10 AM Friday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.53 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.14 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 5 AM Friday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 5 AM Friday; a base was reported in 10 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
Cisco: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Gregory M. Simmons Memorial Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
CiscoGZN
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,716 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cisco 0.9 WSWTX-ES-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,683 ft/28 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PutnamPUTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/1,627 ft/84 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Putnam (PUTT2), 9.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.