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Rockport Beach, Texas

Beach in Aransas County, Texas

Air quality

The air at Rockport Beach

Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 27 miles off.

37Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
  • Ozone37Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-

The days ahead

Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Rockport Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Rockport Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.

FriSat
Rockport Beach from its sand, nowLooking SE from the sand at 3:13 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 1.8 ft every 6 s.130SE140150160Facing SE 141°Wind 2 mphfrom NE, along the beach
Looking SE from the sand at 3:13 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 1.8 ft every 6 s.
NESW

Facing SE 141°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy PHCT2, 14.1 mi away.

Waves at buoy PHCT2, Port Aransas

Wave height
2.3 ft
Period
6 s
From
-
Water
-
Read
Fri 12:00 AM
Distance
14.1 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.

Wave height at buoy PHCT2, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.3 ft to 4.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM2.3 ftWave height at buoy PHCT2, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.3 ft to 4.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftNoonThuNoon2.3 ft
Significant wave height from 2.3 ft to 4.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 12:00 AM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 11:00 PM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 10:00 PM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 9:00 PM2.6 ft6 s-
Thu 8:00 PM2.6 ft6 s-
Thu 7:00 PM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 6:00 PM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 5:00 PM2.3 ft6 s-
Thu 4:00 PM2.6 ft6 s-
Thu 2:00 PM2.6 ft6 s-
Thu 1:00 PM3.0 ft6 s-
Thu 12:00 PM3.3 ft6 s-
Thu 11:00 AM3.3 ft6 s-
Thu 10:00 AM3.3 ft6 s-
Thu 9:00 AM3.6 ft6 s-
Thu 8:00 AM3.6 ft6 s-
Thu 7:00 AM3.9 ft6 s-
Thu 6:00 AM3.9 ft6 s-
Thu 5:00 AM3.9 ft6 s-
Thu 4:00 AM3.9 ft6 s-
Thu 3:00 AM4.3 ft6 s-
Thu 1:00 AM4.3 ft6 s-
Thu 12:00 AM4.3 ft6 s-
Wed 11:00 PM4.3 ft6 s-

Beach

County
Aransas County
State
Texas
Latitude
28.0297° N
Longitude
97.0394° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Rockport Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

RockportNDBC-RCPT2

At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Rockport/Aransas CoRKP

At an airfield/3.7 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station FW1659FW1659

In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Port Aransas 32 NNE23906

At a climate reference station/23.1 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Rockport 0.8 ETX-AR-11

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

RockportRPTT2

At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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