KaufmanTCEQ-71
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.0 mi away/420 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Kemp until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kemp is 71° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 59° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Kemp, Texas.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, 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 Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kemp, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kemp, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
KaufmanTCEQ-71
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.0 mi away/420 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
TerrellTRL
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/476 ft/97 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4725FW4725
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/439 ft/60 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gun Barrel City 1.9 NWTX-HND-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/339 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Site 1RSST2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.1 mi away/374 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.7 mi from Kemp, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Terrell, 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.