BQ5 RanchTWDB-GOBQ5
On a farm or research station/9.3 mi away/317 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Tulsita until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Tulsita is 70° and rain at 5 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Tulsita, Texas.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 52 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Tulsita, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BQ5 RanchTWDB-GOBQ5
On a farm or research station/9.3 mi away/317 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kenedy2R9
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/288 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WX5II-15WX5II-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.9 mi away/323 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mineral 0.4 ENETX-BEE-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/391 ft/77 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeevilleBEET2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/259 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.9 mi from Tulsita, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 5 mi.
71.6 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Kenedy, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Beeville (BEET2), 14.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.