Terrell Jamison CourtTCEQ-1089
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.4 mi away/502 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Poetry until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Poetry is 69° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:06 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 1:00 AM in Poetry, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Poetry, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Poetry, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Terrell Jamison CourtTCEQ-1089
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.4 mi away/502 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
TerrellTRL
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/476 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KF5CMEKF5CME
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/514 ft/48 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Terrell 6.7 NTX-KF-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/574 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wills PointWLPT2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/548 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.0 mi from Poetry, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:04 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, broken at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Terrell, 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.