Shore AcresTCEQ-145
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Texas/Fivemile Pass
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Fivemile Pass until 1 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 80° today.
Now. Fivemile Pass is 79° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 69° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Fivemile Pass, Texas.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 26 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Fivemile Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Shore AcresTCEQ-145
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW5799EW5799
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/8 ft/8 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La PorteT41
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/23 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Seabrook 0.6 NWTX-HRR-376
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/8 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BaytownBATT2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/59 ft/59 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.