Reese Center ScanREET2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/3,333 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Shallowater until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shallowater is 49° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 21 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:27 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Shallowater, Texas.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.82 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shallowater, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Shallowater, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Reese Center ScanREET2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/3,333 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Reese CenterS2104
At a soil climate station/5.9 mi away/3,333 ft/22 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/3,241 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW8074GW8074
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/3,281 ft/30 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shallowater 0.1 NNETX-LK-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/3,317 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ShallowaterSHWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/3,310 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.8 mi from Shallowater, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 25,000 ft; the ceiling is 25,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 25,000 ft.
From the north (10 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Lubbock INTL Arpt, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Shallowater (SHWT2), 0.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.