San Diego Ck at Alice08211800
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/188 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Rancho Alegre until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 81° after 92° today.
Now. Rancho Alegre is 77° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 72° by 6 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 90°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 10:36 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 32 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Rancho Alegre, Texas.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 43 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rancho Alegre, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rancho Alegre, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
San Diego Ck at Alice08211800
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/188 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/177 ft/41 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/18.7 mi away/67 ft/151 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW9404FW9404
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/57 ft/161 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alice 1.7 SSWTX-JW-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/213 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KingsvilleKGST2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/85 ft/133 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.3 mi from Rancho Alegre, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up.
From the southeast (130 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Kingsville (KGST2), 18.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.