Isla Blanca ParkTCEQ-323
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Boca Chica Beach, Texas
77°
88°/70°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 77°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Now. Boca Chica Beach is 77° and mostly cloudy at 10 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms until about 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 71° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. Highs stay close to 84° all week. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%) and Tuesday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 80% lit, and sets at 4:06 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
3UV Low
53Air quality
76%Humidity
73%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
77feels77
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 21
28%
8870
partly cloudy
Thu
Oct 22
34%
8371
partly cloudy
Fri
Oct 23
8568
mostly clear
Sat
Oct 24
14%
8571
overcast
Sun
Oct 25
8472
overcast
Mon
Oct 26
15%
8469
overcast
Tue
Oct 27
35%
8269
overcast
As of 10:00 AM in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Boca Chica Beach
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 37 miles off.
53Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)53Moderate-
- Ozone24Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)30Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 23, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 20
- GoodTodayOct 21
- GoodThuOct 22
- GoodFriOct 23
Smoke, the next 40 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Fri 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Boca Chica Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Wed 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Boca Chica Beach, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Fri 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Wed 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 91°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Moderate
- Surf height
- Around 4 feet
- Water temperature
- 79 °F
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island, including South Padre Island and Boca Chica. Issued 2:30 AM CDT Wed Oct 21.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate |
| Surf height | Around 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet | Around 3 feet |
| Surf temperature | 79 °F | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | None |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms | Partly cloudy until 1 AM, then mostly cloudy until 4 AM, then partly cloudy. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | - | Around 80 |
| Low temperature | - | In the mid 70s | - |
| Winds | North winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon | East winds 5 to 10 mph | Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph |
| Tides | South Padre IslandLow, 6:20 PMHigh, 1:44 AM | South Padre IslandLow, 7:38 AMHigh, 12:50 PM |
- Thursday night
- Surf height around 3 feet. Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 10 mph
- Friday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs around 80. East winds around 10 mph
- Friday night
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 10 mph
- Saturday
- Surf height 2 to 4 feet. Sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds around 15 mph
- Saturday night
- Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 15 mph
- Sunday
- Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around 15 mph
Beach
- County
- Cameron County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 25.9580° N
- Longitude
- 97.1475° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Boca Chica Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station DW1996DW1996
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.2 mi away/11 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Brownsville 12.6 ETX-CMR-94
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port IsabelPIST2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Boca Chica Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Port Isabelcity, 9 mi
- South Padre Islandtown, 11 mi
- Laguna Heightscommunity, 11 mi
- Laguna Vistatown, 14 mi
- South Pointcommunity, 16 mi
- Reid Hope Kingcommunity, 17 mi
- Villa Panchocommunity, 18 mi
- Del Mar Heightscommunity, 19 mi
- Bayviewtown, 20 mi
- Chula Vistacommunity, 20 mi
- Orasoncommunity, 20 mi
- Cameron Parkcommunity, 21 mi
Beaches near Boca Chica Beach
- Boca Chica Beach2 mi
- Del Mar Beach5 mi
- Isla Blanca Beach8 mi
- Aurora 19 Public Beach Access11 mi
- South Padre Island Nude Beach17 mi
- Thrive Beach20 mi
- UFO Beach23 mi
- Little Shell91 mi