Citizen station FW9956FW9956
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/464 ft/16 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Coppell until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Coppell is 66° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 59° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 6 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Coppell, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 18 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; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Coppell, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Coppell, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW9956FW9956
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/464 ft/16 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Elm Fk Trinity Rv nr Carrollton08055500
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/431 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/597 ft/117 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Coppell 1.1 ETX-DA-121
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/501 ft/21 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grapevine DamGPVT2
At a dam/4.5 mi away/502 ft/22 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.2 mi from Coppell, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,200 ft; the ceiling is 1,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Dallas/Ft Worth, 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.