Lake JacksonTCEQ-1016
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lake Jackson until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 82° today.
Now. Lake Jackson is 70° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 7 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:14 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 49 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake Jackson, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lake Jackson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Lake JacksonTCEQ-1016
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/5.0 mi away/26 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WD9GETWD9GET
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.8 mi away/34 ft/23 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Jackson 0.9 SSWTX-BRZ-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/10 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FreeportDOWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/20 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.0 mi from Lake Jackson, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Freeport (DOWT2), 5.1 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.