Texarkana New BostonTCEQ-1031
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.9 mi away/302 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Texarkana until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Texarkana is 69° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 58° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 3:00 AM in Texarkana, Texas.
Air quality
Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Shreveport (LA), 66 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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The 4 instruments nearest Texarkana, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Texarkana New BostonTCEQ-1031
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.9 mi away/302 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AtlantaATA
At an airfield/24.9 mi away/266 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Texarkana 1.1 NNETX-BWE-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/352 ft/43 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TexarkanaTXAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/348 ft/39 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.