At an airfield/6.5 mi away/177 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ben Bolt, Texas
Community in Jim Wells County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected. * WHERE...Bee, Coastal Aransas, Coastal Calhoun, Coastal Kleberg, Coastal Nueces, Coastal Refugio, Coastal San Patricio, Goliad, Inland Calhoun, Inland Kleberg, Inland Nueces, Inland Refugio, Inland San Patricio, Jim Wells, and Victoria Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM Friday to 1 AM 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.
74°
81°/70°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Calm 0 mph
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Ben Bolt until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 81° today.
Now. Ben Bolt is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:29 PM. 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 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
39Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8170
22%
28mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7255
22mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7752
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8158
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8764
17%
Wed
Oct 21
9067
16%
Thu
Oct 22
9167
14%
12mph
74°
81°70°
72°55°
77°52°
81°58°
87°64°
90°67°
91°67°
As of 12:00 AM in Ben Bolt, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Ben Bolt
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 44 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone39Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ben Bolt
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 Ben Bolt, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ben Bolt, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Ben Bolt, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank771of 4,689
San Diego Ck at Alice08211800
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/188 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/14.8 mi away/67 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW9404FW9404
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.5 mi away/57 ft/139 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alice 8.3 SSWTX-JW-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/207 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KingsvilleKGST2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.8 mi away/85 ft/111 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Alice INTL Airport, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.5 mi from Ben Bolt, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Kingsville (KGST2), 14.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Ben Bolt
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Alice Acrescommunity, 5 mi
- Coyote Acrescommunity, 5 mi
- Rancho Alegrecommunity, 5 mi
- Alicecity, 6 mi
- Loma Linda Eastcommunity, 10 mi
- San Diegocity, 12 mi
- Agua Dulcecity, 14 mi
- Amargosacommunity, 16 mi
- Owl Ranchcommunity, 16 mi
- Alfredcommunity, 16 mi
- Kingsvillecity, 17 mi
- South La Palomacommunity, 18 mi