At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/643 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Preston, Texas
Community in Grayson County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central, northeast, and south central Texas. * WHEN...From 4 AM early this morning to 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Unsecured outdoor items may be blown around in the wind. Driving on area roadways may become difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles. Small tree limbs could break and cause damage.
A Wind Advisory means that sustained winds of at least 20 to 30 mph are expected. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Boaters should use extra caution when venturing onto area lakes. Residents may wish to take action to secure trash cans, lawn furniture, and other lightweight outdoor objects that may be blown around in the strong winds.
58°
63°/53°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 58°·Fresh breeze 19 mph N
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Preston until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Preston is 58° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
53%Humidity
70%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
58feels58
19mph
Today
Oct 16
6353
24mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6444
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6942
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7345
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7750
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8155
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8459
overcast
58°
63°53°
64°44°
69°42°
73°45°
77°50°
81°55°
84°59°
As of 7:00 AM in Preston, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Preston
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Ardmore (OK), 44 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
The days ahead
Highest 80, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 15
- 30TodayOct 16
- 40SatOct 17
- 70SunOct 18
- 80MonOct 19
- 70TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Preston
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.46in
- Last 3 days
- 0.69in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Preston, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Preston, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Preston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank3,596of 4,689
Citizen station FW9698FW9698
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/789 ft/76 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/748 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pottsboro 5.9 NTX-GA-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/670 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Dept Public WorksSHET2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/876 ft/163 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Sherman/Denison, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.5 mi from Preston, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Broken at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
59.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 51 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 11,000 ft.
The wind
From the north (10 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Sherman/Denison, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Preston
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pottsborotown, 6 mi
- Sherwood Shorescommunity, 8 mi
- Denisoncity, 10 mi
- Knollwoodcity, 12 mi
- Shermancity, 15 mi
- Sadlercity, 15 mi
- Southmaydcity, 16 mi
- Whitesborocity, 19 mi
- Callisburgcity, 22 mi
- Bellstown, 22 mi
- Dorchestercity, 22 mi
- Howetown, 24 mi