Lufkin RAWSLRWT2
A remote fire weather station/5.8 mi away/253 ft/41 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 Lufkin 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 17 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 90° today.
Now. Lufkin is 71° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 64° 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 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. 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 south-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 11:00 PM in Lufkin, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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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The 6 instruments nearest Lufkin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lufkin RAWSLRWT2
A remote fire weather station/5.8 mi away/253 ft/41 ft below here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/251 ft/43 ft below here
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At an airfield/6.7 mi away/289 ft/5 ft below here
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NacogdochesS2228
At a soil climate station/12.2 mi away/245 ft/49 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Lufkin #2LNFT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/318 ft/24 ft above here
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Lufkin 1.5 SSWTX-AG-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/275 ft/19 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Lufkin, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the southeast (130 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lufkin #2 (LNFT2), 0.7 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.