Weather/Texas/Instruments/08049700
At a river or reservoir gauge
DCP network, identified by the register
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Walnut Ck nr MansfieldReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 463 instruments in Texas stand at one.
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Snow on the ground
Station charts
Rank 847 of 4,689 in Texas, Oct 16. The 247 rank orders a state's stations by their 247 score out of 100: how reliably they report, how accurate their readings are against a reference station, how their readings pass their checks, and how they stand against the forecast.
Station report
Drawn from the register, in the manner of the Field Book, and opened beside the plates that explain each part of it.
At 531 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.35 inHg and the temperature at 57.1 F.
FB-ENG-001, Fig. AAtmosphere in sectionThe whole standard atmosphere this station stands in, from the ground to the edge of space.
FB-ENG-003, Fig. CHydrostatic balanceWhy a barometer 531 ft up reads less: it weighs only the air above it.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 48 degrees above the horizon at 32.58 N, and the day is 11 h 13 min long. Level ground there takes 75 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
FB-ENG-007, Fig. ARadiation budgetWhere the sunlight that reaches this ground goes once it arrives.
A data collection platform, 531 ft above sea level. Its sensors, as its network builds them.
FB-INS-001, Fig. AWhat an instrument isA surface station taken apart: what each of these sensors is.