Citizen station GW1718GW1718
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/400 ft/64 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Flatonia until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Flatonia is 71° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 61° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:19 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Flatonia, Texas.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 55 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Flatonia, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Flatonia, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
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Citizen station GW1718GW1718
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/400 ft/64 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sandy Fork Ck at Hwy 97 nr Waelder08174200
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/280 ft/184 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/18.1 mi away/325 ft/139 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Flatonia 0.3 SSETX-FY-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/486 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Halletsville 2NHATT2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.9 mi away/302 ft/162 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.1 mi from Flatonia, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,100 ft, broken at 3,200 ft, overcast at 4,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.4 F with a dew point of 67.3 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.