Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Nueces County Airport until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 81° after 90° today.
Now. Nueces County Airport is 79° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 72° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:34 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 32 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Nueces County Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 18 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 3,700 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | 6 mph head, on 13 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Robstown (RBO), Nueces County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
6 mph from the east southeast at 9 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 10 PM Wednesday, with a gust of 20 mph at 3 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,500 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 6 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
Robstown: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Nueces County 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
RobstownRBO
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/79 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kingsville ScanKGVT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.6 mi away/67 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/19.7 mi away/67 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
RobstownROBT2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/79 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Robstown 0.3 WTX-NU-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/75 ft/4 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.