Citizen station GW1701GW1701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/582 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Taylor until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Taylor is 72° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 60° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Taylor, Texas.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Taylor, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Taylor, 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 now5 instruments
Citizen station GW1701GW1701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/582 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TaylorT74
At an airfield/1.3 mi away/572 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
LBC Dam 25 nr Taylor303437097285701
At a dam/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lakeline Blvd / 183 Hwy SvrdATX3
Beside a road/23.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Austin 33 NW23907
At a climate reference station/39.2 mi away/1,361 ft/762 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Taylor 1.1 NWTX-WM-381
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/588 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Taylor 1NWTLRT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/577 ft/22 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.3 mi from Taylor, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,700 ft, broken at 4,400 ft, overcast at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 73 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 3,700 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Taylor, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Taylor 1NW (TLRT2), 0.5 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.