LBC Dam 9 nr Thorndale303732097143201
At a dam/2.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Thorndale until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Thorndale is 73° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the north-northeast at 3 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 89°, 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 11:17 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Thorndale, Texas.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Thorndale, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Thorndale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LBC Dam 9 nr Thorndale303732097143201
At a dam/2.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1701GW1701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/582 ft/125 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TaylorT74
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/572 ft/115 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lakeline Blvd / 183 Hwy SvrdATX3
Beside a road/36.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rockdale 8.0 WTX-MLM-52
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/414 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Taylor 1NWTLRT2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/577 ft/120 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.3 mi from Thorndale, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 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.
From the north (350 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle 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), 12.5 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.