Balcones Flying XBFXT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/1,362 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Bertram until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bertram is 71° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:20 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Bertram, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bertram, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Bertram, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Balcones Flying XBFXT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/1,362 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Austin 33 NW23907
At a climate reference station/8.6 mi away/1,361 ft/100 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW4298FW4298
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/1,031 ft/230 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Burnet Municipal/Kate CraddockBMQ
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,276 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lakeline Blvd / 183 Hwy SvrdATX3
Beside a road/23.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
BertramBTMT2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.7 mi away/1,122 ft/139 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Oatmeal 1.7 WNWTX-BRT-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,343 ft/82 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Bertram, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
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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.