West OrangeTCEQ-9
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/10 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Pinehurst until 9 PM 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 11 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 82° today.
Now. Pinehurst is 75° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 85°, 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 11:04 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Pinehurst, Texas.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 14 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 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pinehurst, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Pinehurst, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
West OrangeTCEQ-9
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/10 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OrangeORG
At an airfield/3.2 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6315GW6315
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.4 mi away/25 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BeaumontS2207
At a soil climate station/31.2 mi away/19 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Orange 2.7 NTX-OR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/11 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OrangeORET2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/47 ft/37 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.2 mi from Pinehurst, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:10 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.7 F with a dew point of 73.4 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Orange, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.