Rain Gage at Hughes Springs325852094391200
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Lone Star until 1 AM Saturday. 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 22 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 89° today.
Now. Lone Star is 72° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 58° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 10:00 PM in Lone Star, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 53 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lone Star, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lone Star, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
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Rain Gage at Hughes Springs325852094391200
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/17.9 mi away/364 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW6949FW6949
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.0 mi away/413 ft/87 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Avinger 6.6 STX-MRN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.5 mi away/277 ft/49 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Diana 2 WDIAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/283 ft/43 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.9 mi from Lone Star, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.