At an airfield/0.9 mi away/2,684 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Big Lake until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 79° today.
Now. Big Lake is 62° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 23 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. Rain is likely tomorrow (87%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Big Lake, Texas.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Thu 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Big Lake, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Big Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.9 mi away/2,684 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Barnhart 10SBNHT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.0 mi away/2,631 ft/59 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ozona 16.9 WNWTX-CRK-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.3 mi away/2,561 ft/129 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cope Ranch Co-OpSRLT2
On a farm or research station/25.6 mi away/2,454 ft/236 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 0.9 mi from Big Lake, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 54.7 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the northeast (40 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Big Lake Reagan, 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.