Galveston 99th St.TCEQ-1034
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/16 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Jamaica Beach until 1 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 80° today.
Now. Jamaica Beach is 76° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:12 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Jamaica Beach, Texas.
Air quality
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 45 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jamaica Beach, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Jamaica Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Galveston 99th St.TCEQ-1034
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/16 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/52 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6225GW6225
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.9 mi away/22 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Galveston 3.6 WSWTX-GV-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/5 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FreeportDOWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/28.2 mi away/20 ft/10 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 14.9 mi from Jamaica Beach, Texas. From its report of undefined: 3 of its 4 sheets.
Calm.
At 22 ft above sea level, 0 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.90 inHg and the temperature at 58.9 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.06 inHg means its barometer reads 30.04 inHg; it reports 76.0 F, 17.1 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 52 degrees above the horizon at 29.38 N, and the day is 11 h 19 min long. Level ground there takes 78 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Freeport (DOWT2), 28.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.