BastropBTRT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/505 ft/61 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Camp Swift until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Camp Swift is 75° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 61° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 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 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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 12:00 AM in Camp Swift, Texas.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, 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 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Camp Swift, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Camp Swift, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
BastropBTRT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/505 ft/61 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station NN5DX-11NN5DX-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/529 ft/85 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.2 mi away/486 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ben White Blvd Svrd / Banister LnATX4
Beside a road/28.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Camp Swift 1.4 NNWTX-BST-206
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/472 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FedorFEDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/422 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.2 mi from Camp Swift, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,200 ft, broken at 5,000 ft, broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.3 F with a dew point of 69.3 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,200 ft.
From the east (100 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.