Caprock Canyons State ParkCAPT2
In a park or preserve/3.1 mi away/2,589 ft/71 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas
State Park in Briscoe County, Texas* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 possible across the far southwestern Texas Panhandle and as low as 32 near the edge of the Caprock. * WHERE...The South Plains and the southwestern Texas Panhandle. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
54°
59°/48°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 9 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Caprock Canyons State Park until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Caprock Canyons State Park is 54° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:21 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
64%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
54feels54
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5948
21mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6038
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6638
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7346
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7653
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8060
13%
Thu
Oct 22
8163
27%
54°
59°48°
60°38°
66°38°
73°46°
76°53°
80°60°
81°63°
As of 3:00 AM in Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Caprock Canyons State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 73 miles off.
19Good
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Caprock Canyons State Park
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 1.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Caprock Canyons State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 44 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,518 ft
- County
- Briscoe County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 34.4216° N
- Longitude
- 100.9970° W
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Caprock Canyons State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
measured daily2 instruments
Caprock Canyons HeadquartersTX-BRC-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/2,598 ft/80 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/2,352 ft/166 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Valley Peanut Growers (TURT2), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Caprock Canyons State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.