At an airfield/3.0 mi away/486 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Giddings until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Giddings is 73° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 60° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 56): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:17 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Giddings, Texas.
Air quality
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Bryan-College Station (TX), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Giddings, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/3.0 mi away/486 ft/19 ft below here
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Middle Yegua Ck nr Dime Box08109700
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.9 mi away/297 ft/208 ft below here
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Citizen station NN5DX-11NN5DX-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.3 mi away/529 ft/24 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Giddings 0.5 SWTX-LE-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/485 ft/20 ft below here
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Giddings 3ESEGIDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/466 ft/39 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.0 mi from Giddings, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,800 ft, scattered at 7,500 ft, scattered at 9,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.2 F with a dew point of 69.3 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.