At an airfield/2.9 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palacious Bay Beach, Texas
Beach in Matagorda County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph expected. * WHERE...Portions of south central and southeast Texas. * 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. Secure outdoor objects.
73°
81°/68°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Light breeze 6 mph NNE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Palacious Bay Beach until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 81° today.
Now. Palacious Bay Beach is 73° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
94%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
73feels73
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8168
21%
29mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7256
23mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7654
13mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8059
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
8464
13%
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
8766
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
8767
overcast
73°
81°68°
72°56°
76°54°
80°59°
84°64°
87°66°
87°67°
As of 3:00 AM in Palacious Bay Beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Palacious Bay Beach
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 47 miles off.
27Good
- Ozone27Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palacious Bay Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 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
- 0.01in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Palacious Bay Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing S 179°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Matagorda County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 28.6993° N
- Longitude
- 96.2185° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Palacious Bay Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Matagorda Bay Entrance ChannelNDBC-MBET2
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW8849DW8849
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.8 mi away/27 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Point ComfortPTCT2
At a cooperative observer's station/20.2 mi away/51 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Point Comfort (PTCT2), 20.2 miles from here, read 8 Oct, 08:16. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Palacious Bay Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Palacioscity, 1 mi
- Blessingcommunity, 12 mi
- Matagordacommunity, 15 mi
- Midfieldcommunity, 17 mi
- La Wardcity, 18 mi
- Wadsworthcommunity, 20 mi
- Markhamcommunity, 20 mi
- Point Comfortcity, 21 mi
- Port O'Connorcommunity, 21 mi
- Lolitacommunity, 22 mi
- Magnolia Beachcommunity, 22 mi
- Alamo Beachcommunity, 23 mi
Beaches near Palacious Bay Beach
- Shell Beach6 mi
- Matagorda Beach18 mi
- King Fisher Beach20 mi
- Magnolia Beach Park22 mi
- Lighthouse Beach24 mi
- Bryan Beach54 mi
- Surfside beach59 mi
- Rockport Beach68 mi