WacoCNW
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/469 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lacy-Lakeview until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lacy-Lakeview is 67° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 29 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 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:13 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 3:00 AM in Lacy-Lakeview, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lacy-Lakeview, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lacy-Lakeview, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WacoCNW
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/469 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Waco MazanecTCEQ-1037
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/469 ft/19 ft below here
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Citizen station EW6308EW6308
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/498 ft/10 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RieselS2199
At a soil climate station/16.6 mi away/539 ft/51 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Waco 7.4 NETX-MCL-62
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/490 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waco LakeACTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/433 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.8 mi from Lacy-Lakeview, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Waco, 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.