BridgeportXBP
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/852 ft/69 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Runaway Bay until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Runaway Bay is 58° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 6, 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 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:12 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 Runaway Bay, Texas.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 69 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
1.35 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 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Runaway Bay, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Runaway Bay, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BridgeportXBP
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/852 ft/69 ft below here
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Bridgeport Res abv Bridgeport08043000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/831 ft/90 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Runaway Bay 0.7 SSWTX-WS-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/849 ft/72 ft below here
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Runaway BayRNAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/912 ft/9 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.1 mi from Runaway Bay, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,600 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 51.4 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Bridgeport, 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.