Citizen station FW4701FW4701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/844 ft/72 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Walnut Springs 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 12 AM, the chance peaking at 80% around 1 AM.
Now. Walnut Springs is 65° and rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:15 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Walnut Springs, Texas.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waco-Killeen (TX), 50 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Walnut Springs, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Walnut Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW4701FW4701
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/844 ft/72 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Paluxy Rv at Glen Rose08091500
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.0 mi away/610 ft/306 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
GranburyGDJ
At an airfield/26.9 mi away/778 ft/138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
StephenvilleS2203
At a soil climate station/29.1 mi away/1,311 ft/395 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Glen Rose 5.1 SSWTX-SO-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/960 ft/44 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RainbowRNBT2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.3 mi away/679 ft/237 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.9 mi from Walnut Springs, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 800 ft, overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.4 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 800 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Granbury, 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.