Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Palacios Municipal Airport until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 81° today.
Now. Palacios Municipal Airport is 75° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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 29 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Palacios Municipal Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 45 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 unlit | 5,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 90° / 270° | 0 mph head, on 08 | 7 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 5,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 135° / 315° | 5 mph head, on 31 | 5 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 unlit | 5,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 180° / 0° | 7 mph head, on 36 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Palacios Municipal (PSX), Palacios Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 10 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 76 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 72 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 2 PM Thursday to 88% at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the east at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 18 mph at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.99 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,300 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 15 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
Palacios Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Palacios 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
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/16 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/19 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Point ComfortPTCT2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/51 ft/37 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Point Comfort (PTCT2), 18.6 miles from here, read 8 Oct, 08:16. 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.