Citizen station WD9GETWD9GET
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/34 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Hillcrest Village until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 81° today.
Now. Hillcrest Village is 74° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:12 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Hillcrest Village, Texas.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 26 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 56, moderate, Fri 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hillcrest Village, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hillcrest Village, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station WD9GETWD9GET
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/34 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Chocolate Bayou nr Alvin08078000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.2 mi away/-1 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/43 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alvin 3.1 SSETX-BRZ-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/41 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WestburyHWET2
At a cooperative observer's station/25.2 mi away/82 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Hillcrest Village, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 8,000 ft, broken at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 70.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Pearland Regional, 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.