Lake Buchanan At Cedar PointBPCT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/1,043 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Tow until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 4 AM (51%).
Now. Tow is 72° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 57° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:21 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 12:00 AM in Tow, Texas.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 61 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tow, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Tow, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lake Buchanan At Cedar PointBPCT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/1,043 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW8022GW8022
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,110 ft/81 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.2 mi away/1,102 ft/73 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Austin 33 NW23907
At a climate reference station/29.5 mi away/1,361 ft/332 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Tow 1.6 NETX-LL-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/1,022 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/11.8 mi away/1,368 ft/339 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.2 mi from Tow, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 5,000 ft, overcast at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Llano_Muni_Arpt, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.