Twin Buttes Res nr San Angelo08131200
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Flood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Mertzon until 7 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mertzon is 59° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 24 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Mertzon, Texas.
Precipitation
0.54 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mertzon, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mertzon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Twin Buttes Res nr San Angelo08131200
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5663GW5663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/2,116 ft/111 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/1,909 ft/318 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
San AngeloS2200
At a soil climate station/27.2 mi away/1,970 ft/257 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
MertzonMTZT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/2,231 ft/4 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mertzon 3.1 NNETX-IR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/2,139 ft/88 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Mertzon, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,500 ft, overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 3,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
58.0 F with a dew point of 55.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 26 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of San Angelo/Mathis, 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.