Neches Rv at Evadale08041000
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/7 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
National Preserve in Jasper County, Texas...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FRIDAY... .Breezy and dry conditions due to a frontal passage will combine with very dry fuels and produce red flag conditions across portions of central and southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas through Friday afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in place for all of southeast Texas and southwest and central Louisiana on Saturday. The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Fire Weather Watch for winds and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. The Fire Weather Watch has been cancelled. * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 031 Allen, Fire Weather Zone 032 Evangeline, Fire Weather Zone 033 St. Landry, Fire Weather Zone 044 Lafayette, Fire Weather Zone 045 Upper St. Martin, Fire Weather Zone 141 Northern Calcasieu, Fire Weather Zone 142 Northern Jefferson Davis, Fire Weather Zone 143 Northern Acadia, Fire Weather Zone 201 Hardin, Fire Weather Zone 261 Southern Jasper and Fire Weather Zone 262 Southern Newton. * TIMING...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening. * WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 31 percent. * TEMPERATURES...Up to 86. * LIGHTNING... * IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red Flag Warnings.
74°
90°/67°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Calm 1 mph SSE
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Big Thicket National Preserve until 9 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 79° after 90° today.
Now. Big Thicket National Preserve is 74° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 68° by 8 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 87°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
92%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9067
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
7966
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7152
13mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7448
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7850
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8454
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8756
overcast
74°
90°67°
79°66°
71°52°
74°48°
78°50°
84°54°
87°56°
As of 11:00 PM in Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Big Thicket National Preserve
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beaumont-Port Arthur (TX), 28 miles off.
33Good
- Ozone33Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
GoodModerate
- 45YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Thicket National Preserve
None in the last 24 hours; 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.42in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Big Thicket National Preserve, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Preserve
- Area
- 178 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 36 ft
- County
- Jasper County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 30.4852° N
- Longitude
- 94.1091° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Big Thicket National Preserve, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW6315GW6315
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.6 mi away/25 ft/11 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jasper County-Bell Field AirportJAS
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/213 ft/177 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
BeaumontS2207
At a soil climate station/30.8 mi away/19 ft/17 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Silsbee 7.5 NNETX-HRN-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/39 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Village CreekKTZT2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/69 ft/33 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Thicket National Preserve
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bunacommunity, 9 mi
- Evadalecommunity, 10 mi
- Silsbeecity, 11 mi
- Kountzecity, 14 mi
- Lumbertoncity, 17 mi
- Kirbyvillecity, 17 mi
- Warrencommunity, 20 mi
- Wildwoodcommunity, 20 mi
- Rose Hill Acrescity, 21 mi
- Pine Forestcity, 22 mi
- Ivanhoecity, 23 mi
- Mauricevillecommunity, 23 mi