I-35 & Purcell35ST092
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Flood Warning is in force for Lexington until 2:30 AM Monday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lexington is 55° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:04 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lexington, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Oklahoma City (OK), 35 miles off.
Highest 80, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
2.30 in in the last 24 hours, 5.75 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lexington, OklahomaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lexington, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-35 & Purcell35ST092
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW6823CW6823
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/1,172 ft/107 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/17.7 mi away/1,171 ft/106 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little River 5 S TecumsehTCMO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.9 mi away/961 ft/104 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Purcell 1.3 NOK-MC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,115 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NobleNOLO2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/1,138 ft/73 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.7 mi from Lexington, Oklahoma. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 48.7 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Norman/Westheimer, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.