Temperature
76 F at 10 PM; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 76F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 87F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 70F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lago Vista Texas Rusty Allen Airport until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 87° today.
Now. Lago Vista Texas Rusty Allen Airport is 76° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° 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 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 66°. Rain is likely tomorrow (63%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Lago Vista Texas Rusty Allen Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 21 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, 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 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 3,808 ft | 50 ft | Asphalt | 161° / 341° | 2 mph head, on 15 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Lago Vista (RYW), Lago Vista Texas Rusty Allen Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 10 PM; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 64% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 4 PM to 100% at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the east at 10 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 21 mph at 2 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 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 800 ft at 9 AM; 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
Lago Vista: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Lago Vista Texas Rusty Allen Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Lago VistaRYW
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/1,231 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Austin 33 NW23907
At a climate reference station/10.7 mi away/1,361 ft/130 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lago Vista 2.1 NNETX-TV-169
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/901 ft/330 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Austin - Great HillsAGHT2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/886 ft/345 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Austin - Great Hills (AGHT2), 13.4 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.