At an airfield/5.4 mi away/26 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lamar 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 74° after 83° today.
Now. Lamar is 80° and mostly clear at 1 AM. With the humidity it feels like 85°. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. Rain is possible Tuesday (31%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:23 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Lamar, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 34 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lamar, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lamar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/5.4 mi away/26 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
RockportNDBC-RCPT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Citizen station FW1659FW1659
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.8 mi away/8 ft/8 ft below here
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Port Aransas 32 NNE23906
At a climate reference station/15.0 mi away/8 ft/8 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Rockport 7.9 NNETX-AR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/26 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RockportRPTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/20 ft/4 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.4 mi from Lamar, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
81.0 F with a dew point of 71.0 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.