Buffalo Bayou nr Fulshear08072350
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Cinco Ranch until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cinco Ranch is 72° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 58): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:13 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Cinco Ranch, Texas.
Air quality
Index 58, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 25 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.16 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cinco Ranch, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cinco Ranch, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Buffalo Bayou nr Fulshear08072350
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW9414CW9414
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/123 ft/13 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Houston ExecTME
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/166 ft/56 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie View #1S2016
At a soil climate station/27.2 mi away/270 ft/160 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Katy 7.1 SETX-FB-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/97 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wolf HillKTYT2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/164 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.4 mi from Cinco Ranch, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,800 ft, scattered at 2,200 ft, broken at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 9 mi.
71.6 F with a dew point of 71.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Houston Exec, 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.