At an airfield/19.3 mi away/3,241 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Petersburg until 10 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 72° today.
Now. Petersburg is 56° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
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 south-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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Petersburg, Texas.
Precipitation
0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Petersburg, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Petersburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/19.3 mi away/3,241 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lubbock 12th StreetTCEQ-1028
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Reese CenterS2104
At a soil climate station/30.9 mi away/3,333 ft/80 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW8074GW8074
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.3 mi away/3,281 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
AbernathyABET2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/3,360 ft/107 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Abernathy 3.2 NNWTX-HLE-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/3,370 ft/117 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.3 mi from Petersburg, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,200 ft, scattered at 10,000 ft, scattered at 25,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,200 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Lubbock INTL Arpt, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Abernathy (ABET2), 14.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:18. 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.