BrazosCFD
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/336 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Kurten until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kurten is 72° and light rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 60° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 57): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. 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 11:12 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 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Kurten, Texas.
Air quality
Index 57, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Bryan-College Station (TX), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kurten, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Kurten, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BrazosCFD
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/336 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/363 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bryan Finfeather RoadTCEQ-1086
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.3 mi away/339 ft/26 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bryan 9.2 ENETX-BZS-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/264 ft/49 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonvilleMSVT2
At a cooperative observer's station/23.0 mi away/259 ft/54 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.5 mi from Kurten, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Brazos, 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.