Neches River At Sam Rayburn ResJSPT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/197 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Sam Rayburn until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sam Rayburn is 70° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north-northwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:43 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Sam Rayburn, Texas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 64 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Sam Rayburn, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Neches River At Sam Rayburn ResJSPT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/197 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jasper County-Bell Field AirportJAS
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/213 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW5861DW5861
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.4 mi away/278 ft/69 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Browndell 3.4 SWTX-JS-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/254 ft/45 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sam Rayburn DamJSPT2
At a dam/4.3 mi away/197 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.0 mi from Sam Rayburn, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.