Mountain Ck Lk nr Grand Prairie08050050
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Cockrell Hill until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 89° today.
Now. Cockrell Hill is 75° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. Rain is likely tomorrow (56%). 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. The day is 11 hours 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Cockrell Hill, Texas.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cockrell Hill, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cockrell Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mountain Ck Lk nr Grand Prairie08050050
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/659 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7165GW7165
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/609 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dallas 7.1 SWTX-DA-101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/585 ft/46 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Joe Pool LakeJPLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/545 ft/86 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.2 mi from Cockrell Hill, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,500 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 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.