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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Surfside beach, Texas
Beach in Brazoria County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 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.
75°
88°/72°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 75°·Light air 3 mph E
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Surfside beach until 1 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Surfside beach is 75° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 71° 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 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. Rain is possible tomorrow (41%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
44Air quality
91%Humidity
43%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
75feels75
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
8872
35%
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8269
41%
23mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7156
19mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7453
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7858
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8363
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8564
overcast
75°
88°72°
82°69°
71°56°
74°53°
78°58°
83°63°
85°64°
As of 11:00 PM in Surfside beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Surfside beach
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 55 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)44Good-
- Ozone33Good28 ppb12.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- ModerateFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Surfside beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Surfside beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 143°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 42035, 56.5 mi away.
Waves at buoy 42035, Galveston
- Wave height
- 3.3 ft
- Period
- 6 s
- From
- SE (135°)
- Swell
- 1.0 ft at 7 s from SE
- Wind waves
- 3.3 ft at 6 s from SE
- Water
- 83 °F
- Read
- Thu 10:50 PM
- Distance
- 56.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | SSE (163°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | SSE (168°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (153°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (153°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (151°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SE (144°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (150°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | S (175°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | SSE (167°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SE (144°) |
| Thu 2:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SE (133°) |
| Thu 1:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | S (170°) |
| Thu 12:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SSE (153°) |
| Wed 11:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (158°) |
Beach
- County
- Brazoria County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 28.9489° N
- Longitude
- 95.2859° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Surfside beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW9349DW9349
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.9 mi away/22 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Freeport 0.3 SWTX-BRZ-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FreeportDOWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/20 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 Freeport (DOWT2), 6.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Surfside beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Quintanatown, 4 mi
- Oyster Creekcity, 4 mi
- Freeportcity, 5 mi
- Clutecity, 9 mi
- Richwoodcity, 11 mi
- Lake Jacksoncity, 11 mi
- Jones Creekvillage, 12 mi
- Angletoncity, 18 mi
- Brazoriacity, 18 mi
- Bailey's Prairievillage, 18 mi
- Danburycity, 20 mi
- Wild Peach Villagecommunity, 23 mi
Beaches near Surfside beach
- Bryan Beach5 mi
- San Luis Beach14 mi
- West Beach23 mi
- Jamaica Beach25 mi
- Galveston Beach27 mi
- Palm Beach27 mi
- Pirates Beach28 mi
- Bermuda Beach28 mi