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Wednesday  May 20, 2026
Day 140 of 365
Week 20 of 52
2026 Calendar

Central Daylight Time (UTC -5 hrs)

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This Morning
   
High/Low Temp 67°F 12:05 AM
66°F 01:06 AM
High/Low/Avg Humidity
 99% 12:00 AM
99% 12:00 AM
99% Average
High/Low Dew Point
 66°F 12:00 AM
65°F 01:06 AM
High/Low Pressure 30.133 in 12:55 AM
30.067 in 12:24 AM
Highest Wind Gust 16 mph 12:37 AM
Rainfall 0.07 in



Week
Since 12:00 AM Sunday

High/Low Temp 95°F May 19
64°F May 19
High/Low Humidity
 99% May 19
50% May 19
High/Low Dew Point
 78°F May 19
63°F May 19
High/Low Pressure 30.133 in May 20
29.707 in May 17
Highest Wind Gust 36 mph May 19
Rainfall 0.79 in

 

May

High/Low Temp 95°F May 19
46°F May 02
High/Low Humidity
 99% May 01
35% May 03
High/Low Dew Point
 79°F May 09
46°F May 02
High/Low Pressure 30.225 in May 02
29.660 in May 05
Highest Wind Gust 36 mph May 19
Rainfall 2.64 in


2026


High/Low Temp 96°F Mar 15
16°F Jan 26
Heat Index High
Wind Chill Low
 112°F Apr 27
1°F Jan 25
High/Low Humidity
 99% Jan 05
21% Jan 06
High/Low Dew Point
 80°F Apr 28
14°F Jan 17
High/Low Pressure 30.778 in Jan 26
29.551 in Mar 15
Highest Wind Gust 36 mph May 19
Rainfall
13.70 in YEAR TO DATE

38% of 36 inch annual average

22.3 inches still needed before Jan 1st to match Leander average

 



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Mason Creek Tornado 2000


        

Leander, Texas   USA
      Located ½ mile WNW of Bagdad Rd at Crystal Falls Pkwy
Approx 25 miles NW of Austin

ELEVATION 1037 FT
316 METERS
30.55295° N   97.86159° W


 
Conditions at
01:40 am
Updated every 5 minutes
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Temperature Graphs and Comfort Index




Light Air

gusting to Light Breeze















66°F 18°C

feels like 70°F 21°C
⇔
 STEADY

HIGH 67°F    LOW 66°F 		SSE
163°
3 mph to 4 mph
4 kph to 5 kph		0.07 in
1.778 mm
total rain since midnight



Dew Point Comfort Index
MUGGY
Dew Point 66°F 18°C
Relative Humidity 99%



Last Rain Event
Light Rain

05/20/2026 01:40:00 AM
0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes ago



76°F 24°C
Server Room
High 77°F Low 76°F  


Wind Distribution


     
 
 
Last 24 hrs
2 hrs
Average         7 mph
5 mph
Average Gust  11 mph
8 mph
High Gust       36 mph
16 mph
Current Rainfall Rate 0.08 in/hr
Classification: Light Rain

 Outdoor Temperature Trends
compared to current temp of
66°F at 01:40 am

-0°F below 1 hour ago
  1°F above 3 hours ago
-13°F below 01:40 am Yesterday
-13°F below 01:40 am 2 days ago
-10°F below 01:40 am 3 days ago
-2°F below 01:40 am last Wednesday
Rain Totals

            0.07 in  since midnight
          0.72 in  yesterday
          0.79 in  this week
          2.64 in  this month
          13.70 in this year




         




  Change
⇑ rising
0.006 in Hg last 3 hours


30.119 in Hg
1019 millibars







99%

High 99% 12:00 AM
 Low 99% 12:00 AM

0% change last 3 hrs







66°F 18°C
  MUGGY 

1°F change last 3 hours
             
     
   


AcuRite 5-N-1®
Outdoor Sensor signal 100%
Sensor Batteries OK
Last sensor signal outage
04/18/2026 10:30:00 AM

31 days, 15 hours, 10 minutes ago

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Heavenly Bodies



Moon Phase
Northern Hemisphere



Distance 01:40 am
227537 miles from Earth
17% Full

D i r e c t i o n
⬁ NW
bearing 314°
Currently -17° ⇓ below the horizon
i
Wednesday  May 20, 2026
Moonrise 10:17:54 AM
Lunar Noon 05:38:01 PM
Moonset 12:01:47 AM

Next New 06/14/2026 09:54:02 PM
Next First Quarter 05/23/2026 06:10:49 AM
Next Full 05/31/2026 03:45:04 AM
Next Third Quarter 06/08/2026 05:00:23 AM

01:40 am CDT
Direction N @ 3°
94.0600370715 million miles from Earth
-39.3708564515° ⇓ below the horizon
Wednesday  May 20, 2026
Astronomical Dawn 05:01:20 AM
Nautical Dawn 05:35:17 AM
Dawn 06:06:37 AM
Sunrise 06:35:25 AM
Solar Noon 01:27:59 PM
Sunset 08:20:52 PM
Dusk 08:49:44 PM
Dark 09:21:10 PM
Night 09:55:13 PM

 Daylight 13 hrs, 49 min
1 min, 9 sec more than yesterday
Darkness 10 hrs, 11 min
Seasonal Solar Events-Earth
Timestamps are Central Daylight Time (UTC -5 hrs)

Northern Hemisphere
   Vernal Equinox 03/20/2027 03:24:29 PM
 Summer Solstice 06/21/2026 03:24:28 AM
Autumnal Equinox 09/22/2026 07:05:06 PM
    Winter Solstice 12/21/2026 02:49:56 PM
Southern Hemisphere
   Vernal Equinox 09/22/2026 07:05:06 PM
 Summer Solstice 12/21/2026 02:49:56 PM
Autumnal Equinox 03/20/2027 03:24:29 PM
    Winter Solstice 06/21/2026 03:24:28 AM



Our Solar System
Wednesday  May 20, 2026
  01:40 am Central Daylight Time (UTC -5 hrs)
updated every 5 minutes

Distances are calculated from center to center of the applicable planetary bodies.
All years, days, and hours are in Earth time units. All rise and set timestamps are in U.S.- CDT



99.86% total mass of the entire solar system.
Converts 600 million tons of hydrogen per
second into heat and light from nuclear
fusion inside it's core. Medium size star.

Diameter 864,938 mi
Rotation Period 648 hours       Year 247.7 billion years
Average surface temp 10,000°F 5538°C
Current Position and Bearings

94.0600370715 million miles  from Earth
Rise 06:33:47 AM
Set 08:22:31 PM
Bearing 3.65895709781°
-39.3708564515° above the horizon




Smallest planet. Closest to the Sun,
but not the hottest planet. Shrinking
diameter and surface wrinkling due to
loss of core temp. No moon.


Diameter 3,031.9 mi
Day 4222.6 hrs      Year 88 days
Average surface temp 330°F 166°C
Current Position and Bearings

119.670464435 million miles  from Earth
28.6870631763 million miles from the Sun
Rise 06:57:33 AM
Set 09:00:34 PM
Bearing 355.367912327°
-36.8910264998° above the horizon
Hottest planet due to high pressure CO2
greenhouse atmosphere. Brightest due to
highly reflective clouds of CO2. No moon.

Diameter 7,520.8 mi
Day 2802 hrs      Year 224.7 days
Average surface temp 867°F 464°C
Current Position and Bearings

123.65050858 million miles from Earth
66.7861393923 million miles from the Sun
Rise 08:39:27 AM
Set 10:54:28 PM
Bearing 327.961805603°
-26.7071956643° above the horizon


Only planet with H2O oceans, active and
extinct life forms, and just one moon.

Diameter 7,917.5 mi
Day 24 hrs      Year 365.25 days
Average surface temp 59°F 15°C (rising due to CO2 pollution)
Current Position

94.0600370715 million miles  from the Sun
227537 mi  from the Moon
Oxidized ores explain it's reddish tint.
Polar ice caps, a rocky core, and four
seasons like Earth. 2 moons

Diameter 4,212.3 mi
Day 24h 37m 23s       Year: 687 days
Average surface temp -85°F -65°C
Current Position and Bearings

205.348762638 million miles from Earth
130.360959348 million miles from the Sun
Rise 05:06:38 AM
Set 06:05:17 PM
Bearing 40.3358631435°
-38.7949485611° above the horizon
Largest planet, all gases, no land surface
Violent hydrogen & helium atmosphere.
95 moons

Diameter 86,881 mi
Day 09h 50m 30s       Year 11.86 years
Average surface temp -166°F -110°C
Current Position and Bearings

540.402167565 million miles from Earth
489.107622887 million miles from the Sun
Rise 10:15:25 AM
Set 12:13:13 AM
Bearing 308.877437439°
-16.3651947231° above the horizon




Saturn's strong gravity is devouring her rings
at 45 tons per second. 146 confirmed moons.
All gases, no land surface. 2nd largest planet.

Diameter 72,367 mi
Day 10h 14m       Year 29.46 years
Average surface temp -220°F -140°C
Current Position and Bearings

0.940790147273 billion mi  from Earth
0.880811712763 billion miles from the Sun
Rise 04:15:39 AM
Set 04:30:19 PM
Bearing 63.8781147785°
-32.9679126896° above the horizon

28° axial tilt, similar to Mars & Earth
Rotates on it's side. 27 moons. No land
surface. 3rd largest planet

Diameter 31,518 mi
Day: 17h 14m       Year: 84 years
Average surface temp -320°F -196°C
Current Position and Bearings

1.90341344148 billion miles  from Earth
1.80942025727 billion miles  from the Sun
Rise 06:42:50 AM
Set 08:27:12 PM
Bearing 0.951217073654°
-39.1632528517° above the horizon

Furthest, darkest, coldest, and smallest
outer planet. 1,500 mph winds and
14 moons. No land surface. 4th largest planet.

Diameter 30,599 mi
Day 16 hrs       Year 164.8 years
Average surface temp -330°F -201°C
Current Position and Bearings

2.82984785539 billion miles  from Earth
2.77763627528 billion miles  from the Sun
Rise 03:52:07 AM
Set 03:56:45 PM
Bearing 70.8450238451°
-28.5698685057° above the horizon

The moon phase, sun, and solar system sections on this website are dedicated to the late Elwood Downey WB0OEW.
In addition to Ham Clock, he also developed the PyEphem astronomical position computing library for the Python computer language used to create this page.




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Steve
Callsign W5SDC
Storm chaser, weather station technician, and internet domain linux admin

This station's first weather page went live on the internet in January of 2004. Since then, home weather stations have become much more reliable, affordable, and now provide much more data than just basic temperature, wind, and rain measurements.

It is a pleasure to have a weather station on the web and very honorable to be able to submit instrument readings to NOAA's MADIS database through the CWOP-Citizens Weather Observer Program. I also xmit conditions at 5 min intervals to Weather Underground and findu.com.

My data from Leander, Texas combined with thousands of other private stations from around the world provide invaluable data used for forecasting, nowcasting, and scientific study by students of meteorology and climate.

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TECHNICAL SALUTATIONS

Tom Keffer                                 Matt Wall

    

Gary Roderick

Big thanks to Tom Keffer for writing the weeWX weather station engine and also to Matthew Wall and Gary Roderick for their invaluable contributions to weeWX, it's drivers, and it's extensions. Get the whole saga of weeWX and the software at the link above. weeWX is relatively easy to configure and use even for those like me with limited programming experience. On June 26, 2017, I started with the basic HTML template that was included with weeWX and have watched this entire weather website's template grow to 1.972 lines of HTML over the last eight years.



Elwood Downey
RIP Jan 29, 2026

The astronomical position calculations used in the Heavenly Bodies section of this website were written by Mr. Downey. The last time that I heard from Elwood was in April of 2024 when we exchanged photos of the full solor eclipse on April 8th. Both his friendly attitude and his ingenious abilities will be sorely missed.



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