Sandies Ck at FM 108 nr Smiley08174970
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/238 ft/160 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Nixon until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 90° today.
Now. Nixon is 77° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. Rain is likely tomorrow (51%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 30 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Nixon, Texas.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, San Antonio (TX), 45 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, 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 Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Nixon, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Nixon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sandies Ck at FM 108 nr Smiley08174970
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/238 ft/160 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW4174EW4174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.6 mi away/347 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/22.3 mi away/530 ft/132 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Nixon 0.3 ETX-GZ-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/395 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NixonNXNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/403 ft/5 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.3 mi from Nixon, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.5 F with a dew point of 63.3 F, 64 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,100 ft up.
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.