Prairie View #1 ScanPRVT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/270 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Prairie View until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 90° today.
Now. Prairie View is 77° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 67° 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 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Prairie View, Texas.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 45 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Prairie View, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Prairie View, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Prairie View #1 ScanPRVT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/270 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Prairie View #1S2016
At a soil climate station/1.2 mi away/270 ft/7 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station EW4261EW4261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/266 ft/3 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Navasota60R
At an airfield/20.2 mi away/223 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hempstead 5.4 NETX-WL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/275 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BellvilleBLLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/180 ft/83 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.2 mi from Prairie View, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 73.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the east (90 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Navasota, 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.