Citizen station FW6820FW6820
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/157 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Garza-Salinas II, Texas
Community in Starr County, Texas...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL INCREASE WILDFIRE THREAT... .A strong cold front will push south through Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley today, with a secondary surge of strong northerly winds arriving late this evening through late Saturday morning. Relative humidity values are expected to drop this afternoon with little to no recovery into Saturday morning. Any wildfire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread due to strong winds and lower humidity. A Red Flag Warning is in effect. * WINDS...North 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 24 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
74°
88°/73°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Light air 1 mph ESE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Garza-Salinas II until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 75° after 88° today.
Now. Garza-Salinas II is 74° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 94°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 75°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:35 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 32 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
82%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8873
30%
22mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7559
20mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7857
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8463
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
9068
16%
Wed
Oct 21
9371
19%
Thu
Oct 22
9472
overcast
74°
88°73°
75°59°
78°57°
84°63°
90°68°
93°71°
94°72°
As of 2:00 AM in Garza-Salinas II, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Garza-Salinas II
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 67 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone29Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 15
- ModerateTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Garza-Salinas II
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Garza-Salinas II, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Garza-Salinas II, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Garza-Salinas II, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank3,743of 4,689
Falcon Lake RAWSFART2
A remote fire weather station/27.1 mi away/344 ft/184 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/34.6 mi away/108 ft/52 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rio Grande At Rio Grande CityRGDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/174 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rio Grande City 3.5 ENETX-ST-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/288 ft/128 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Mcallen/Miller INTL, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.6 mi from Garza-Salinas II, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
78.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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 Garza-Salinas II
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Las Lomascommunity, 1 mi
- Camargitocommunity, 1 mi
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- Chaparritocommunity, 2 mi
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