Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/157 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Palmview until 7 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Palmview is 79° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 73° by 4 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 92°, and the coolest Saturday, near 74°. Rain is possible tomorrow (30%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 35 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Palmview, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 43 miles off.
Highest moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Palmview, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Palmview, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/157 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MissionTCEQ-43
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.8 mi away/121 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/108 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/26.9 mi away/57 ft/85 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Edinburg 17 NNE12987
At a climate reference station/28.3 mi away/64 ft/78 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Palmview 0.9 SSWTX-HDL-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/144 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McallenMCAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/128 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.8 mi from Palmview, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
80.0 F with a dew point of 70.0 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the east (100 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mcallen (MCAT2), 10.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.