At an airfield/9.8 mi away/16 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Blessing until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 81° after 89° today.
Now. Blessing is 77° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 71° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Blessing, Texas.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 46 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
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 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 Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Blessing, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Blessing, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/16 ft/21 ft below here
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Colorado Rv nr Bay City08162500
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station DW8849DW8849
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.0 mi away/27 ft/10 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/19 ft/18 ft below here
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DanevangDVGT2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.7 mi away/69 ft/32 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.8 mi from Blessing, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.