At an airfield/0.1 mi away/2,818 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Winkler County Airport until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 79° today.
Now. Winkler County Airport is 68° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 23 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 54° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 day is 11 hours 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Winkler County Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Hobbs (NM), 66 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.46 in over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 3,514 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 51° / 231° | - | - |
| 13 / 31 | 5,003 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | - | - |
The 5 instruments nearest Winkler County 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/2,818 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.5 mi away/2,723 ft/99 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Monahans 6 ENE03047
At a climate reference station/26.0 mi away/2,724 ft/98 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pyote 0.3 NNWTX-WR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/2,633 ft/189 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a cooperative observer's station/25.5 mi away/2,723 ft/99 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.