In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/506 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mexia until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mexia is 72° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph, gusting to 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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 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 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:11 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Mexia, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.52 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mexia, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mexia, 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 now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/506 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/546 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lk Mexia nr Mexia08110300
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RieselS2199
At a soil climate station/27.5 mi away/539 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Tehuacana 0.6 SSWTX-LT-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/650 ft/127 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Navarro Mills RsvrDAWT2
At a reservoir/22.8 mi away/449 ft/74 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.4 mi from Mexia, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,000 ft, broken at 7,000 ft, broken at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Mexia Limestone, 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.