Big Cow Ck nr Newton08029500
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/134 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Newton until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 79° today.
Now. Newton is 68° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Newton, Texas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 4 instruments nearest Newton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Big Cow Ck nr Newton08029500
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/134 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jasper County-Bell Field AirportJAS
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/213 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jasper 8.4 SETX-JS-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/289 ft/85 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JasperJAST2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/233 ft/29 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.8 mi from Newton, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Broken at 6,000 ft, broken at 7,500 ft, broken at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 8 mi.
Calm.
At 213 ft above sea level, 1 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.69 inHg and the temperature at 58.2 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.08 inHg means its barometer reads 29.85 inHg; it reports 68.0 F, 9.8 F warmer than standard.
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.