At an airfield/0.0 mi away/597 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for San Marcos Regional Airport until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 90° today.
Now. San Marcos Regional Airport is 77° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° 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 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:28 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in San Marcos Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 27 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 6,330 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 88° / 268° | 7 mph head, on 08 | 3 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 | 5,601 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 7 mph head, on 13 | 3 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 5,214 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 178° / 358° | 3 mph head, on 17 | 7 mph from the left |
The 4 instruments nearest San Marcos Regional 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/597 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kyle 3ENE RAWSKRET2
A remote fire weather station/7.7 mi away/654 ft/57 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Martindale 1.7 NNWTX-CLD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/558 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
San Marcos Electric UtilitySAST2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/572 ft/25 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.