Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Skylark Field until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Skylark Field is 71° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:17 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Skylark Field, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,495 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 16° / 196° | 9 mph head, on 01 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Killeen Muni (AWOS) (ILE), Skylark Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
13 mph from the north at 12 AM; at its strongest 18 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.16 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.16 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 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
Killeen Muni (AWOS): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Skylark Field, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/846 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
LAMPASAS RIVER 5 SW Stillhouse HollowSTIT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/640 ft/208 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Austin 33 NW23907
At a climate reference station/39.8 mi away/1,361 ft/513 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Harker Heights 1.6 NWTX-BEL-131
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/841 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KilleenKIET2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/810 ft/38 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.