Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mid-Way Regional Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mid-Way Regional Airport is 67° and rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Mid-Way Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 22 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
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 6,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 184° / 4° | 13 mph head, on 36 | 6 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Midlothian/Waxac (JWY), Mid-Way Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
75 F at 10 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 62 F, the air 64% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 4 PM Thursday to 99% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 15 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 9 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
Midlothian/Waxac: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Mid-Way Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/712 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a park or preserve/11.4 mi away/600 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Midlothian 5.2 SETX-EL-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/673 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MaypearlMYPT2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/561 ft/152 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.