At an airfield/3.2 mi away/486 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Highland Park until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Highland Park is 69° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 12 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:08 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Highland Park, Texas.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Highland Park, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Highland Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/3.2 mi away/486 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Convention CenterTCEQ-312
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/476 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0087GW0087
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/611 ft/99 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dallas 2.7 WNWTX-DA-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/492 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RichardsonRRNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/650 ft/138 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.2 mi from Highland Park, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,200 ft, broken at 3,600 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 21 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 44 mph.
The full report of Dallas/Love Field, in 6 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.