Temperature
75 F at 10 PM; 87 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 67 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 75F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 87F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 67F
- 7 AM
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 Mount Pleasant Regional Airport until 1 AM Saturday. 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 22 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 89° today.
Now. Mount Pleasant Regional Airport is 75° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 57° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Mount Pleasant Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 55 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, 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 Thu 10 PM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 6,004 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 172° / 352° | 8 mph head, on 35 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Mount Pleasant Airport (OSA), Mount Pleasant Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
75 F at 10 PM; 87 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 67 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 74% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 5 PM to 97% at 8 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 10 AM, with a gust of 17 mph at 11 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 7 AM, under a mile for 3 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 0 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 12 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
The 4 instruments nearest Mount Pleasant 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/364 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gilmer (RAWS)GLMT2
A remote fire weather station/27.2 mi away/390 ft/26 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Pleasant 6.4 SSETX-TI-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/388 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount PleasantMPLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/410 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mount Pleasant (MPLT2), 5.7 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.