LamesaLUV
At an airfield/19.9 mi away/2,991 ft/191 ft above here
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Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Ackerly until 7 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ackerly is 60° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ackerly, Texas.
Precipitation
1.75 in in the last 24 hours, 3.60 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ackerly, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Ackerly, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 18.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
LamesaLUV
At an airfield/19.9 mi away/2,991 ft/191 ft above here
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Gail 1EFRKT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.4 mi away/2,521 ft/279 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Lenorah Co-OpLENT2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/2,835 ft/35 ft above here
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Big Spring 2.5 ETX-HWR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.5 mi away/2,493 ft/307 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.9 mi from Ackerly, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Lamesa, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.