Falcon Lake RAWSFART2
A remote fire weather station/14.5 mi away/344 ft/163 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Escobares until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 76° after 86° today.
Now. Escobares is 83° and overcast at 3 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 94°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 76°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:36 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 day is 11 hours 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Escobares, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Escobares, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Escobares, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Falcon Lake RAWSFART2
A remote fire weather station/14.5 mi away/344 ft/163 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.2 mi away/157 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Roma 2.2 ETX-ST-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/189 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rio Grande At Rio Grande CityRGDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/174 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 14.5 mi from Escobares, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:11 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
74.0 F with a dew point of 62.7 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,600 ft up.
From the north (11 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
At 344 ft above sea level, 1 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.55 inHg and the temperature at 57.8 F; it reports 74.0 F, 16.2 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Falcon Lake RAWS, in 5 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.