At an airfield/15.3 mi away/3,054 ft/229 ft below here
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Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Skellytown until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Skellytown is 44° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Skellytown, Texas.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Amarillo (TX), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.48 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 10 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Skellytown, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Skellytown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/3,054 ft/229 ft below here
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Borger FM 1559TCEQ-1073
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/3,102 ft/181 ft below here
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In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.3 mi away/3,155 ft/128 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Pampa 1.2 SWTX-GY-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/3,238 ft/45 ft below here
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Radio Station KgroPAPT2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/3,245 ft/38 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.3 mi from Skellytown, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 65 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Borger/Hutchinson, 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.