TempleTMPT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/650 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Temple until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Temple is 66° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north at 19 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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.
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 11:16 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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Temple, Texas.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Temple, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
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TempleTMPT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/650 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/682 ft/41 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW8215EW8215
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.9 mi away/431 ft/210 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RieselS2199
At a soil climate station/39.7 mi away/539 ft/102 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Temple 1.9 SWTX-BEL-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/607 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/640 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.8 mi from Temple, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:11 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the north (360 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
At 682 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.19 inHg and the temperature at 56.6 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.23 inHg means its barometer reads 29.49 inHg.
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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.