RICHLAND CREEK 7 S Richland Chambers LakeFFLT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.4 mi away/344 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Eureka until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Eureka is 73° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Eureka, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 59 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Eureka, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Eureka, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
RICHLAND CREEK 7 S Richland Chambers LakeFFLT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.4 mi away/344 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CorsicanaCRS
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/449 ft/59 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW6623DW6623
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/414 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Palestine 6 WNW53968
At a climate reference station/37.5 mi away/383 ft/7 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Eureka 1.9 ESETX-NV-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/357 ft/33 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Site 1CSAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/440 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Eureka, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 64.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Corsicana, 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.