RA Ranch Weather StationTWDB-CVRAR
On a farm or research station/10.6 mi away/879 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Cranfills Gap until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 3 AM (51%).
Now. Cranfills Gap is 68° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:16 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Cranfills Gap, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.8 miles Fri 2 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cranfills Gap, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cranfills Gap, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
RA Ranch Weather StationTWDB-CVRAR
On a farm or research station/10.6 mi away/879 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW4701FW4701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/844 ft/144 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HamiltonMNZ
At an airfield/20.2 mi away/1,299 ft/311 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
StephenvilleS2203
At a soil climate station/39.0 mi away/1,311 ft/323 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cranfills GapCNFT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/997 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Meridian 12.3 WSWTX-BSQ-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,010 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.2 mi from Cranfills Gap, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 600 ft, broken at 6,000 ft, overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 7 mi.
64.4 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Hamilton, 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.