Temperature
73 F at 1 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 71 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 73F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 71F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Victoria Regional Airport, Texas
Medium airport in Victoria County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected. * WHERE...Bee, Coastal Aransas, Coastal Calhoun, Coastal Kleberg, Coastal Nueces, Coastal Refugio, Coastal San Patricio, Goliad, Inland Calhoun, Inland Kleberg, Inland Nueces, Inland Refugio, Inland San Patricio, Jim Wells, and Victoria Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM Friday to 1 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
72°
79°/68°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 72°·Light air 3 mph NNE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Victoria Regional Airport until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Victoria Regional Airport is 72° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the north-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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 Wednesday, near 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:21 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 29 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
94%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
72feels72
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
7968
11%
30mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7353
24mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7750
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8254
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8761
11%
Wed
Oct 21
9163
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
9164
12mph
72°
79°68°
73°53°
77°50°
82°54°
87°61°
91°63°
91°64°
As of 2:00 AM in Victoria Regional Airport, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Victoria Regional Airport
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 4 miles off.
27Good
- Ozone27Good28 ppb5.3 mi
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Victoria Regional Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.03in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Victoria Regional Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- VCT
- ICAO
- KVCT
- IATA
- VCT
- Field elevation
- 115 ft
- Serves
- Victoria
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- VCT
- Wind now
- From 10° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:51
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 9,111 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 2 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 4,908 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 3 mph head, on 36 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Victoria Regional (VCT), Victoria Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 71 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 4 PM Thursday to 97% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 71F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 93%
- Humidity, range
- 45 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
2 mph from the north at 1 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 10 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 2mph
- from the north
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 5 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 10 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 1 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.09inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,200 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 13 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 3,200ft
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 13
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Victoria Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Victoria Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.9 mi away/118 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Victoria RAWSVCRT2
A remote fire weather station/0.5 mi away/118 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Port Aransas 32 NNE23906
At a climate reference station/38.3 mi away/8 ft/107 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
VictoriaVRAT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/115 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Victoria 2.1 ENETX-VC-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/97 ft/18 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Victoria Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Victoriacity, 4 mi
- Inezcommunity, 6 mi
- Quail Creekcommunity, 11 mi
- Placedocommunity, 12 mi
- Bloomingtoncommunity, 14 mi
- Ednacity, 18 mi
- Vanderbiltcommunity, 18 mi
- Lolitacommunity, 23 mi
- Port Lavacacity, 24 mi
- Point Comfortcity, 25 mi
- Tivolicommunity, 27 mi
- La Wardcity, 27 mi
Airports near Victoria Regional Airport
- Calhoun County AirportPKV, 20 mi
- Palacios Municipal AirportPSX, 41 mi
- Aransas County AirportRKP, 53 mi
- Wharton Regional AirportARM, 54 mi
- Roger M Dreyer Memorial AirportT20, 57 mi
- Kenedy Regional Airport2R9, 57 mi
- Robert R Wells Jr Airport66R, 60 mi
- Beeville Municipal AirportBEA, 63 mi