In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/742 ft/115 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Macdona until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Macdona is 72° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 62° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:27 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Macdona, Texas.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, San Antonio (TX), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Macdona, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Macdona, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/742 ft/115 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Leon Ck at SW Military Dr, San Antonio08181460
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kelly AFBSKF
At an airfield/7.9 mi away/689 ft/62 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Atascosa 2.3 NETX-BXR-264
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/682 ft/55 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PoteetPOTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/20.9 mi away/463 ft/164 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.9 mi from Macdona, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.7 F with a dew point of 64.2 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Kelly AFB, 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.