Citizen station KF5CMEKF5CME
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/514 ft/16 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Union Valley until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Union Valley is 64° and light rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:06 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 Union Valley, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
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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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Union Valley, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Union Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station KF5CMEKF5CME
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/514 ft/16 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Greenville RAWSGELT2
A remote fire weather station/7.9 mi away/528 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RockwallF46
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/585 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Royse City 3.5 ENETX-HNT-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/579 ft/49 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lavon ReservoirLVNT2
At a reservoir/15.3 mi away/482 ft/48 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.3 mi from Union Valley, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.6 F with a dew point of 57.2 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Rockwall, 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.