Temperature
73 F at 2 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 73F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 70F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Orange County Airport until 9 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 82° today.
Now. Orange County Airport is 72° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:04 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Orange County Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Orange (ORG), Orange County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 2 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 71 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 1 PM Thursday to 97% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 2 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 16 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 2 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 2 AM; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,700 ft at 7 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 13 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
Orange: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Orange County 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 now3 instruments
OrangeORG
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/13 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Neches River 5 N Neches River Saltwater BarrierNSBT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.7 mi away/39 ft/26 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BeaumontS2207
At a soil climate station/29.4 mi away/19 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Orange 4.8 SWTX-OR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/9 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OrangeORET2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/47 ft/34 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.