Citizen station FW7813FW7813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/3,488 ft/150 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Rockwell Place until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rockwell Place is 49° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. Rain is possible Thursday (38%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:22 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 18 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rockwell Place, Texas.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 7, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rockwell Place, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Rockwell Place, 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 now4 instruments
Citizen station FW7813FW7813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/3,488 ft/150 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Bushland #1 ScanBUST2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.8 mi away/3,820 ft/182 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Bushland #1S2006
At a soil climate station/13.8 mi away/3,820 ft/182 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Amarillo - Rick Husband IntlAMA
At an airfield/16.6 mi away/3,606 ft/32 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Canyon 4.2 NTX-RD-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/3,643 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CanyonCYNT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/3,583 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.6 mi from Rockwell Place, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 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.