In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/741 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Prosper until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prosper is 62° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 3 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 4:00 AM in Prosper, Texas.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Prosper, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Prosper, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/741 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Frisco EubanksTCEQ-1010
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.9 mi away/650 ft/75 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mc KinneyTKI
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/587 ft/138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prosper 0.8 SWTX-CLL-95
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/749 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lewisville DamLEWT2
At a dam/17.3 mi away/564 ft/161 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.3 mi from Prosper, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:31 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,800 ft, overcast at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.0 F with a dew point of 52.0 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 26 mph, gusting 45 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 mph.
The full report of Mc Kinney, 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.