Citizen station GW3808GW3808
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/759 ft/66 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Santa Clara until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Santa Clara is 68° and mostly cloudy at 12 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:24 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 27 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Santa Clara, Texas.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, San Antonio (TX), 23 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Santa Clara, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Santa Clara, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW3808GW3808
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/759 ft/66 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cibolo Ck nr Saint Hedwig08185065
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/582 ft/111 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Randolph AFBRND
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/761 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 0.3 ENETX-GP-115
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/654 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New Braunfels WfoNBWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/627 ft/66 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.5 mi from Santa Clara, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,800 ft, scattered at 6,500 ft, broken at 19,000 ft; the ceiling is 19,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Randolph AFB, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at New Braunfels Wfo (NBWT2), 11.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. 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.