Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Wood County Airport - Collins Field until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wood County Airport - Collins Field is 70° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 8 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 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. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
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 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:03 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Wood County Airport - Collins Field, Texas.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 4,002 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 182° / 2° | 6 mph head, on 36 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Mineola/Quitman (JDD), Wood County Airport - Collins Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 10 PM Thursday; 86 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 68 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 50% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 11 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.5 miles at 8 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 7 AM Thursday; 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
Mineola/Quitman: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Wood County Airport - Collins 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/433 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gilmer (RAWS)GLMT2
A remote fire weather station/32.2 mi away/390 ft/44 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mineola 4.1 WNWTX-WD-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/388 ft/46 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MineolaMNLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/456 ft/22 ft above 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.