Walnut Ck nr Mansfield08049700
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.9 mi away/531 ft/66 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mansfield until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mansfield is 66° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 23 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Mansfield, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 23 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mansfield, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mansfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Walnut Ck nr Mansfield08049700
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.9 mi away/531 ft/66 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5886FW5886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/634 ft/37 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/630 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mansfield 2.3 NNETX-TN-177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/595 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Joe Pool LakeJPLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.9 mi away/545 ft/52 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.7 mi from Mansfield, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,000 ft, overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 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.