AtlantaATA
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/266 ft/1 ft above here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Atlanta until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Atlanta is 69° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 59° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 59): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Atlanta, Texas.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 4 instruments nearest Atlanta, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
AtlantaATA
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/266 ft/1 ft above here
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Sulphur River At Lake Wright PatmanTXKT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/233 ft/32 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Atlanta 0.3 ETX-CSS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/279 ft/14 ft above here
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AtlantaATAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/331 ft/66 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.9 mi from Atlanta, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 266 ft above sea level, 1 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.63 inHg and the temperature at 58.1 F.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 48 degrees above the horizon at 33.10 N, and the day is 11 h 12 min long. Level ground there takes 74 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
An airport station, 266 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
The full report of Atlanta, in 3 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Atlanta (ATAT2), 0.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.