Temperature
54 F at 10 PM; 68 F at its warmest, 11 PM Wednesday, and 54 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 54F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 68F
- 11 PM Wednesday
- Lowest
- 54F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hemphill County Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 70° today.
Now. Hemphill County Airport is 54° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hemphill County Airport, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,004 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | 10 mph head, on 04 | 7 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 unlit | 3,001 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 12 mph head, on 36 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Canadian (HHF), Hemphill County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 10 PM; 68 F at its warmest, 11 PM Wednesday, and 54 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 45 F, the air 71% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 5 PM to 100% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the north at 10 PM; at its strongest 24 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 37 mph at 3 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.42 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.46 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 miles at 8 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 4 AM; a base was reported in 23 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 4 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Canadian: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Hemphill County 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
CanadianHHF
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,395 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wheeler RAWSWHRT2
A remote fire weather station/33.1 mi away/2,478 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Canadian 6 NwCCET2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/2,539 ft/143 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Briscoe 8.1 NNETX-HMP-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.9 mi away/2,578 ft/182 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.