In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/300 ft/4 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Shelbyville 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. Shelbyville is 69° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. 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 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Shelbyville, Texas.
Air quality
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 57 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shelbyville, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Shelbyville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/300 ft/4 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CenterF17
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/312 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sabine North RAWSDRKT2
A remote fire weather station/10.6 mi away/305 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CenterCENT2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/331 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Center 0.6 NWTX-SL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/400 ft/104 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.8 mi from Shelbyville, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Center, 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.