Henderson County NorthTWDB-HEHCN
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/626 ft/212 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Purtis Creek State Park until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 89° today.
Now. Purtis Creek State Park is 73° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north at 2 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Purtis Creek State Park, Texas.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 40 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 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Purtis Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Henderson County NorthTWDB-HEHCN
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/626 ft/212 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AthensF44
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/444 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4725FW4725
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.2 mi away/439 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Canton 10.0 SWTX-VZ-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/485 ft/71 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AthensAHST2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.9 mi away/446 ft/32 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.