Fairfield FM 2570 Ward RanchTCEQ-1084
On a farm or research station/3.1 mi away/415 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Fairfield Lake State Park 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 68° after 88° today.
Now. Fairfield Lake State Park is 75° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 61° 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 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 67°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Fairfield Lake State Park, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 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.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Fairfield Lake 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 now4 instruments
Fairfield FM 2570 Ward RanchTCEQ-1084
On a farm or research station/3.1 mi away/415 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Palestine 6 WNW53968
At a climate reference station/19.4 mi away/383 ft/76 ft above here
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PalestinePSN
At an airfield/20.2 mi away/423 ft/116 ft above here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/506 ft/199 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fairfield 1.5 SWTX-FT-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/505 ft/198 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AthensAHST2
At a cooperative observer's station/28.7 mi away/446 ft/139 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.