Port_LavacaPKV
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lighthouse Beach until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 81° after 90° today.
Now. Lighthouse Beach is 80° and clear at 9 PM. With the humidity it feels like 85°. The dew point is 75°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 72° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 29 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:27 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Lighthouse Beach, Texas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 26 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing E 90°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Lighthouse Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Port_LavacaPKV
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8849DW8849
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/27 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Guadalupe Rv at SH 35 nr Tivoli08188810
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/-9 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Port Aransas 32 NNE23906
At a climate reference station/26.4 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Point ComfortPTCT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/51 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Port Lavaca 6.8 WTX-CLH-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/28 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Point Comfort (PTCT2), 4.2 miles from here, read 8 Oct, 08:16. 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.