At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/438 ft/123 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Palmetto State Park, Texas
State Park in Gonzales County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts of 40-50 mph expected. * WHERE...All of South Central Texas. * WHEN...From 4 AM to 7 PM CDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Secure outdoor objects.
79°
90°/68°
Clear·
Feels like 79°·Light air 3 mph ESE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Palmetto State Park until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 90° today.
Now. Palmetto State Park is 79° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° 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 68°. Rain is likely tomorrow (58%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 27 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:28 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
40Air quality
62%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
79feels79
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9068
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
7164
58%
27mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6851
20mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7247
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7750
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8358
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8761
overcast
79°
90°68°
71°64°
68°51°
72°47°
77°50°
83°58°
87°61°
As of 9:00 PM in Palmetto State Park, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Palmetto State Park
Index 40, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 48 miles off.
40Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good-
- Ozone40Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)16Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palmetto State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Palmetto State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.77 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 315 ft
- County
- Gonzales County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 29.5854° N
- Longitude
- 97.5774° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Palmetto State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
GonzalesT20
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/355 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW4174EW4174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/347 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Luling 7.6 STX-GZ-31
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/447 ft/132 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LulingLUUT2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/401 ft/86 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
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