PlainviewPVW
At an airfield/25.1 mi away/3,373 ft/189 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Floydada until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Floydada is 55° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. Rain is possible Thursday (31%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:24 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Floydada, Texas.
Precipitation
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, 1.95 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Floydada, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Floydada, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
PlainviewPVW
At an airfield/25.1 mi away/3,373 ft/189 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Caprock Canyons State ParkCAPT2
In a park or preserve/33.9 mi away/2,589 ft/595 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FloydadaFYDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/3,176 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Plainview 0.96 ESETX-HLE-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.4 mi away/3,373 ft/189 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.1 mi from Floydada, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 71 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 3,200 ft.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Plainview, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Floydada (FYDT2), 0.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.