Temperature
69 F at 3 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 69F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for A L Mangham Jr. Regional Airport 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. A L Mangham Jr. Regional Airport is 69° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in A L Mangham Jr. Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 63 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 185° / 5° | 5 mph head, on 36 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Nacogdoches (AWOS) (OCH), A L Mangham Jr. Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 3 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the northwest at 4 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 5 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.12 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 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
Nacogdoches (AWOS): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest A L Mangham Jr. Regional Airport, 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/354 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Nacoghoches 9SW SCANANFT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/240 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
NacogdochesS2228
At a soil climate station/5.9 mi away/245 ft/110 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Nacogdoches Arbor OaksTX-NC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/331 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NacogdochesNACT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/289 ft/66 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.