Brazos 451BQX
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Matagorda Beach until 1 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Matagorda Beach is 80° and mostly clear at 9 PM. With the humidity it feels like 85°. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 74° 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 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 Matagorda Beach, Texas.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 65 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
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, 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 SE 124°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 4 instruments nearest Matagorda Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Brazos 451BQX
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Colorado Rv nr Bay City08162500
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.4 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bay City WaterworksBAYT2
At a cooperative observer's station/26.6 mi away/62 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.