Port_LavacaPKV
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/30 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Magnolia Beach until 1 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 81° today.
Now. Magnolia Beach is 74° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 89°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:20 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 3:00 AM in Magnolia Beach, Texas.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 32 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, 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 2 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 Magnolia Beach, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Magnolia Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Port_LavacaPKV
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/30 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8849DW8849
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/27 ft/18 ft above here
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Matagorda Bay Entrance ChannelNDBC-MBET2
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Port Aransas 32 NNE23906
At a climate reference station/24.4 mi away/8 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Point ComfortPTCT2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.5 mi away/51 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Seadrift 4.9 ENETX-CLH-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/12 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.6 mi from Magnolia Beach, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.5 F with a dew point of 72.5 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Port_Lavaca, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Point Comfort (PTCT2), 7.5 miles from here, read 8 Oct, 08:16. 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.