Texas AgriScienceTWDB-HGTAL
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/46 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Lyford 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. Lyford is 73° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 Thursday, near 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 32 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lyford, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 16 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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On the radar over Lyford, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Lyford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Texas AgriScienceTWDB-HGTAL
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/46 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/36 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Edinburg 17 NNE12987
At a climate reference station/18.3 mi away/64 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/20.5 mi away/57 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station CW8690CW8690
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.4 mi away/21 ft/15 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Raymondville 0.6 NNWTX-WC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/31 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RaymondvillePYMT2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/39 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.2 mi from Lyford, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:52 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
At 36 ft above sea level, 0 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.88 inHg and the temperature at 58.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 29.99 inHg means its barometer reads 29.95 inHg.
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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.