Galveston Pier 21NDBC-GTOT2
At a harbour/13.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crystal Beach, Texas
Beach in Galveston County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected. * WHERE...Bolivar Peninsula, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island, and Matagorda Islands Counties. * WHEN...From 10 AM Friday to 1 PM 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. Secure outdoor objects.
73°
76°/66°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 73°·Fresh breeze 19 mph N
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Crystal Beach until 1 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Crystal Beach is 73° and mostly cloudy at 1 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:09 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 28 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
6UV High
42Air quality
83%Humidity
74%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
73feels73
19mph
UV 6
Today
Oct 16
7666
25%
24mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7053
19mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7253
12mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7556
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7859
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8161
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8362
overcast
73°
76°66°
70°53°
72°53°
75°56°
78°59°
81°61°
83°62°
As of 1:00 PM in Crystal Beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Crystal Beach
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 48 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good-
- Ozone22Good17 ppb18.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)23Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 74YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
- ModerateMonOct 19
- ModerateTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Crystal Beach
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.30in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
Visibility
How far you can see at Crystal Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 146°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 42035, 20.0 mi away.
Waves at buoy 42035, Galveston
- Wave height
- 3.6 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- N (3°)
- Swell
- 1.0 ft at 7 s from SE
- Wind waves
- 3.6 ft at 4 s from N
- Water
- 83 °F
- Read
- Fri 12:50 PM
- Distance
- 20.0 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12:50 PM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | N (3°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SSE (159°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | SE (139°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | SE (140°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | SE (131°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SE (138°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SE (144°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (134°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | ESE (118°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SE (126°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SE (127°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | SE (129°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | SE (135°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | SE (133°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SE (130°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (140°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (142°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (139°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (155°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (147°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (168°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (161°) |
Beach
- County
- Galveston County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 29.4527° N
- Longitude
- 94.6296° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Crystal Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/19.0 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2080DW2080
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.5 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crystal Beach 2.2 ENETX-GV-92
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BaytownBATT2
At a cooperative observer's station/34.1 mi away/59 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Crystal Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bolivar Peninsulacommunity, 1 mi
- Galvestoncity, 14 mi
- Oak Islandcommunity, 15 mi
- San Leoncommunity, 18 mi
- Texas Citycity, 19 mi
- Tiki Islandvillage, 20 mi
- Bayou Vistacity, 21 mi
- Anahuaccity, 22 mi
- Bacliffcommunity, 22 mi
- La Marquecity, 22 mi
- Beach Citycity, 23 mi
- Kemahcity, 24 mi
Beaches near Crystal Beach
- Bolivar Beach5 mi
- East Beach12 mi
- Porretto Beach13 mi
- Stewart Beach13 mi
- Galveston Beach16 mi
- Babe's Beach19 mi
- Bobby Beach Park22 mi
- West Beach23 mi