Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Beaumont Municipal Airport until 9 PM 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 10 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 80° today.
Now. Beaumont Municipal Airport is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% 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 27 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Beaumont Municipal Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beaumont-Port Arthur (TX), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 4,001 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 132° / 312° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Beaumont (BMT), Beaumont Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
75 F at 10 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 70 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 2 PM Thursday to 96% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the east at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 16 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 18 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Beaumont: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Beaumont Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BeaumontBMT
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/32 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaumont ScanBETT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.6 mi away/19 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BeaumontS2207
At a soil climate station/4.6 mi away/19 ft/13 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Beaumont 4.0 WSWTX-JJ-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/26 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Research StationBAGT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/39 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Research Station (BAGT2), 4.0 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.