Citizen station FW7042FW7042
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.0 mi away/3,281 ft/174 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Tahoka until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Tahoka is 57° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:28 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Tahoka, Texas.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lubbock (TX), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tahoka, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Tahoka, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW7042FW7042
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.0 mi away/3,281 ft/174 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
N Fk DMF Brazos Rv at Loop 289 nr Lubbock08079510
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.7 mi away/3,098 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
LamesaLUV
At an airfield/29.2 mi away/2,991 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Reese CenterS2104
At a soil climate station/33.8 mi away/3,333 ft/226 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
TahokaTHKT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/3,104 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wilson 7.8 WTX-LY-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/3,214 ft/107 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.2 mi from Tahoka, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.4 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Lamesa, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoka (THKT2), 0.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:28. 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.