Falcon Lake RAWSFART2
A remote fire weather station/19.9 mi away/344 ft/161 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Mi Ranchito Estate until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 76° after 86° today.
Now. Mi Ranchito Estate is 80° and clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 94°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 76°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:35 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 day is 11 hours 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Mi Ranchito Estate, Texas.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 74 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 9 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 Mi Ranchito Estate, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Mi Ranchito Estate, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Falcon Lake RAWSFART2
A remote fire weather station/19.9 mi away/344 ft/161 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.2 mi away/157 ft/26 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rio Grande City 1.6 NWTX-ST-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/240 ft/57 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rio Grande At Rio Grande CityRGDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/174 ft/9 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 19.9 mi from Mi Ranchito Estate, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:11 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
77.0 F with a dew point of 67.6 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,200 ft up.
From the north (1 degrees) at 5 mph, gusting 10 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 12 mph.
At 344 ft above sea level, 1 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.55 inHg and the temperature at 57.8 F; it reports 77.0 F, 19.2 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Falcon Lake RAWS, in 5 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.