Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Pecos Municipal Airport 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. Pecos Municipal Airport is 65° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 12 AM. 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Tuesday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:41 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 Pecos Municipal Airport, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 5,953 ft | 80 ft | Asphalt | 101° / 281° | 3 mph head, on 09 | 18 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 6,236 ft | 80 ft | Asphalt | 147° / 327° | 11 mph head, on 32 | 14 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Pecos (PEQ), Pecos Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 10 PM Thursday; 80 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 47 F, the air 51% saturated; the humidity ran from 24% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
19 mph from the north northeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 19 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 32 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.35 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.19 inHg over 3 hours; 0.42 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 5 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 1,100 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 18 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
Pecos: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 2 instruments nearest Pecos Municipal 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 now1 instrument
PecosPEQ
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/2,612 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Pecos 0.6 WSWTX-RV-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/2,603 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.