Citizen station FW7813FW7813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/3,488 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Canyon until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 67° today.
Now. Canyon is 55° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 21 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Canyon, Texas.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, 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 Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Canyon, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Canyon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW7813FW7813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/3,488 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bushland #1 ScanBUST2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/3,820 ft/278 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Bushland #1S2006
At a soil climate station/16.4 mi away/3,820 ft/278 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Amarillo - Rick Husband IntlAMA
At an airfield/20.5 mi away/3,606 ft/64 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Canyon 0.2 SSWTX-RD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/3,540 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CanyonCYNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/3,583 ft/41 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.5 mi from Canyon, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,300 ft, overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 48 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.