CrocketDKR
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/348 ft/130 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Grapeland is 70° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 59° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Grapeland, Texas.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 60 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Grapeland, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Grapeland, 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
CrocketDKR
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/348 ft/130 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
PalestineAPLT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.1 mi away/476 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Palestine 6 WNW53968
At a climate reference station/23.8 mi away/383 ft/95 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grapeland 0.3 SSWTX-HST-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/491 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Site 1CKTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/338 ft/140 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 18.1 mi from Grapeland, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:05 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
70.0 F with a dew point of 68.2 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
From the north (3 degrees) at 1 mph, gusting 8 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 8 mph.
At 476 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.41 inHg and the temperature at 57.3 F; it reports 70.0 F, 12.7 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Palestine, 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.