Citizen station EW4798EW4798
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/732 ft/44 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Northlake until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Northlake is 63° and mostly clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 Thursday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 5:00 PM in Northlake, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 33 miles off.
Highest moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Northlake, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Northlake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW4798EW4798
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/732 ft/44 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Denton Ck nr Justin08053500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/607 ft/81 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/672 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Argyle 2.8 SSWTX-DN-71
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/664 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Site 2JSTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/653 ft/35 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Northlake, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 5,000 ft, broken at 25,000 ft; the ceiling is 25,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 38 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 23 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
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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.