Gibbons Ck Res nr Shiro08111058
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.2 mi away/200 ft/117 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Richards until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 90° today.
Now. Richards is 76° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° 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 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 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 south-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 11:00 PM in Richards, Texas.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bryan-College Station (TX), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Richards, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Richards, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Gibbons Ck Res nr Shiro08111058
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.2 mi away/200 ft/117 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW7087FW7087
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.0 mi away/203 ft/114 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Navasota60R
At an airfield/19.8 mi away/223 ft/94 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie View #1S2016
At a soil climate station/32.5 mi away/270 ft/47 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Anderson 5.1 ESETX-GM-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/340 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HuntsvilleHUNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/21.3 mi away/486 ft/169 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.8 mi from Richards, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.6 F with a dew point of 73.2 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Navasota, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Huntsville (HUNT2), 21.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:11. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.