A remote fire weather station/1.9 mi away/3,776 ft/974 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Big Bend National Park, Texas
National Park in Brewster County, TexasFlood Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and western Texas, including the following areas, in southwest Texas, Central Brewster, Chinati Mountains, Chisos Basin, Davis Mountains, Davis Mountains Foothills, Lower Brewster County, Marfa Plateau, Pecos, Presidio Valley and Terrell. In western Texas, Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Howard, Loving, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Reagan, Reeves County Plains, Scurry, Upton, Ward and Winkler. * WHEN...Through Friday morning. * IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Low-water crossings may be flooded. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Moisture from Hurricane Simon will stream over West Texas the next several days. Periods of heavy rain are expected from this system that will likely cause flash flooding, especially in urban areas and low water crossings where drainage is poor. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
63°
73°/65°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 63°·Fresh breeze 23 mph NNE
Alert. A Flood Watch is in force for Big Bend National Park until 7 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 87% around 6 AM.
Now. Big Bend National Park is 63° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 23 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest Saturday, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (100%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 41 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 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 30 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
65%Humidity
86%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
63feels63
36%
23mph
Today
Oct 15
7365
95%
24mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5146
100%
41mph
Sat
Oct 17
5039
27mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
5838
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
6645
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7350
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7656
overcast
63°
73°65°
51°46°
50°39°
58°38°
66°45°
73°50°
76°56°
As of 11:00 PM in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Big Bend National Park
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Big Bend (TX), 2 miles off.
36Good
- Ozone36Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Bend National Park
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.25in
- Last 3 days
- 1.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 96%
Visibility
How far you can see at Big Bend National Park, the next 45 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.8 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 1,269 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,750 ft
- County
- Brewster County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 29.2974° N
- Longitude
- 103.2143° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Big Bend National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Panther Junction 2 N22016
At a climate reference station/3.1 mi away/3,494 ft/1,256 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/3,724 ft/1,026 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Terlingua 15.6 SWTX-BRS-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.3 mi away/3,815 ft/935 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Big Bend National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Big Bendfeature, 3 mi
- Study Buttecommunity, 20 mi
- Terlinguacommunity, 23 mi
- Redfordcommunity, 61 mi
- Marathoncommunity, 63 mi
- Presidiocity, 72 mi
- Sandersoncommunity, 76 mi
- Alpinecity, 78 mi
- Marfacity, 85 mi
- Fort Daviscommunity, 98 mi
- Davis Mountainsfeature, 100 mi
- Fort Stocktoncity, 112 mi
Parks near Big Bend National Park
- Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River27 mi
- Blackwell School National Historic Site85 mi
- Fort Davis National Historic Site99 mi
- Fort Lancaster State Historic Site131 mi
- Amistad National Recreation Area135 mi
- Bush Family Home State Historic Site198 mi
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park207 mi
- Garner State Park209 mi