Parks/Texas/Martin Dies, Jr. State Park

Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, Texas

State Park in Jasper County, Texas

53° 79°/53°

Mostly cloudy· Feels like 53°·Calm 1 mph ENE

Now. Martin Dies is 53° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 60): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 81°. The days ahead look dry.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 62% lit, and sets at 1:55 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

60Air quality

93%Humidity

66%Cloud

Now

3:00 AM

53feels53

Today

Oct 19

7953

UV 7

Tue

Oct 20

8154

UV 7

Wed

Oct 21

8455

UV 7

Thu

Oct 22

8655

Fri

Oct 23

8756

Sat

Oct 24

8656

Sun

Oct 25

8657

53°

79°53°

81°54°

84°55°

86°55°

87°56°

86°56°

86°57°

As of 3:00 AM in Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, Texas.

Air quality

The air at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park

Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Beaumont-Port Arthur (TX), 53 miles off.

60Moderate

Fine particles (PM2.5)60Moderate-
Ozone14Good-

The days ahead

Moderate each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.

GoodModerate

39YesterdayOct 18
ModerateTodayOct 19
ModerateTueOct 20

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Tue 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park

None in the last 24 hours; 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.32in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 7 PM.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 1.48 sq mi
Height at its point: 90 ft
County: Jasper County
State: Texas
Latitude: 30.8531° N
Longitude: 94.1715° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Martin Dies, Jr. State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

B. A. Steinhagen Lk at Town Bluff08040000

At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Jasper County-Bell Field AirportJAS

At an airfield/8.4 mi away/213 ft/123 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station DW5861DW5861

In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.8 mi away/278 ft/188 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Colmesneil 11.6 ESETX-TR-13