Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/157 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for West Sharyland until 7 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 89° today.
Now. West Sharyland is 76° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° 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 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 93°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:34 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in West Sharyland, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 41 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over West Sharyland, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest West Sharyland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/157 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MissionTCEQ-43
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.6 mi away/121 ft/59 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/108 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Edinburg 17 NNE12987
At a climate reference station/24.5 mi away/64 ft/116 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/25.2 mi away/57 ft/123 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Alton 1.5 WSWTX-HDL-79
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/170 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McallenMCAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/128 ft/52 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.4 mi from West Sharyland, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,700 ft; the ceiling is 4,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
80.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,700 ft.
From the east (80 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mcallen (MCAT2), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.