Amarillo - Rick Husband IntlAMA
At an airfield/33.9 mi away/3,606 ft/349 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Groom until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Groom is 46° and mostly clear at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north at 26 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:08 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Groom, Texas.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 41 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 6 miles Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Groom, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Groom, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Amarillo - Rick Husband IntlAMA
At an airfield/33.9 mi away/3,606 ft/349 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Amarillo Xcel El RanchoTCEQ-1077
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.7 mi away/3,525 ft/268 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pampa 23Mi.SJERT2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/3,205 ft/52 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Claude 4.4 SETX-AM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/3,301 ft/44 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.9 mi from Groom, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 28.0 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,800 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 31 mph, gusting 40 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
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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.