Big Fossil Ck at Haltom City08048800
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/489 ft/79 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Richland Hills until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 57% around 1 AM.
Now. Richland Hills is 66° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 12 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 12:00 AM in Richland Hills, Texas.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Fri 12 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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The 5 instruments nearest Richland Hills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Big Fossil Ck at Haltom City08048800
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/489 ft/79 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW8881EW8881
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/658 ft/90 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.9 mi away/709 ft/141 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Richland Hills 0.5 WTX-TN-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/551 ft/17 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
North Richland HillsNRHT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/584 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.9 mi from Richland Hills, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:05 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.0 F with a dew point of 61.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
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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.