Citizen station GW5333GW5333
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/601 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Murphy until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Murphy is 68° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Murphy, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 20 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
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Murphy, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Murphy, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW5333GW5333
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/601 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain Gage at Rowlett Ck nr Sachse325735096365101
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mc KinneyTKI
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/587 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Murphy 0.9 SSWTX-CLL-44
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/564 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lavon ReservoirLVNT2
At a reservoir/7.6 mi away/482 ft/103 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Murphy, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Mc Kinney, 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.