Russell FarmsTWDB-CFRUS
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/24 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Lago until 7 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 88° today.
Now. Lago is 76° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 61° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. Rain is possible Tuesday (30%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:31 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 33 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Lago, Texas.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 9 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lago, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lago, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Russell FarmsTWDB-CFRUS
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/24 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station N5JLR-2N5JLR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/35 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/36 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/22.0 mi away/57 ft/18 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
San Benito 0.9 SSETX-CMR-101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/34 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HarlingenHGNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/43 ft/4 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.1 mi from Lago, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 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 69.0 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.
From the east (90 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
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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.