Henson Ck at W Range Rd nr Gatesville08100630
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/855 ft/164 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mound until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mound is 73° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the north at 8 mph, gusting to 18 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:16 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 25 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mound, Texas.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Mound, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mound, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Henson Ck at W Range Rd nr Gatesville08100630
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/855 ft/164 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
GatesvilleGOP
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/906 ft/215 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW5168EW5168
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/740 ft/49 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gatesville 12.0 SETX-CRL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/765 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CrawfordCWFT2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/722 ft/31 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.3 mi from Mound, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,700 ft, broken at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,700 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Gatesville, 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.