Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Midland Airpark until 7 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Midland Airpark is 61° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 21 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:33 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Midland Airpark, Texas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Midland-Odessa (TX), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
2.35 in in the last 24 hours, 2.70 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,571 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 75° / 255° | 12 mph head, on 07 | 17 mph from the left |
| 16 / 34 | 3,977 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 162° / 342° | 17 mph head, on 34 | 13 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Midland (MDD), Midland Airpark's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
62 F at 10 PM Thursday; 73 F at its warmest, 9 AM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 50 F, the air 66% saturated; the humidity ran from 65% at 9 PM Thursday to 93% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 21 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 30 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.33 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.36 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 10 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
1.60 in measured in the gauge, the most, 1.10 in, in the hour to 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Midland: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Midland Airpark, 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
MidlandMDD
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,802 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Midland RAWSMNDT2
A remote fire weather station/8.3 mi away/2,867 ft/64 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Midland 0.7 WTX-MDL-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/2,805 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Midland Intl ArptMCIT2
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/2,863 ft/60 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Midland Intl Arpt (MCIT2), 8.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.