Temperature
75 F at 10 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 71 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 75F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 88F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 71F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 89° today.
Now. Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport is 74° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 66°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 59 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,001 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 10° / 190° | 12 mph head, on 01 | 7 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Sulphur_Springs (SLR), Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
75 F at 10 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 71 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 41% at 4 PM to 96% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
15 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 15 mph, 10 PM, with a gust of 26 mph at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 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 700 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 10 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
Sulphur_Springs: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Sulphur Springs Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/489 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SOUTH SULPHUR RIVER 4 SE Jim Chapman Lake (Cooper)SCLT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/400 ft/89 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sulphur SpringsSUST2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/502 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sulphur Springs 4.3 ETX-HPK-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/482 ft/7 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.