At an airfield/8.3 mi away/2,818 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Kermit until 7 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kermit is 62° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 6, 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 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Wednesday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:37 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Kermit, Texas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Hobbs (NM), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.47 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kermit, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kermit, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/2,818 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9693FW9693
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.6 mi away/2,853 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.2 mi away/2,723 ft/135 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Monahans 6 ENE03047
At a climate reference station/23.6 mi away/2,724 ft/134 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Andrews 26.7 SWTX-AD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.4 mi away/3,194 ft/336 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monahans 5ENE Co-OpMHST2
At a cooperative observer's station/23.2 mi away/2,723 ft/135 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.3 mi from Kermit, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 2,818 ft above sea level, 10 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.00 inHg and the temperature at 49.0 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.42 inHg means its barometer reads 27.45 inHg.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 49 degrees above the horizon at 31.78 N, and the day is 11 h 14 min long. Level ground there takes 76 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
An airport station, 2,818 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
The full report of Wink/Winkler Co., in 3 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.