At an airfield/17.3 mi away/16 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Matagorda until 1 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Matagorda is 78° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 73° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Matagorda, Texas.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 62 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 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 Matagorda, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Matagorda, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 17.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/17.3 mi away/16 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Colorado Rv nr Bay City08162500
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/19 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bay City WaterworksBAYT2
At a cooperative observer's station/20.7 mi away/62 ft/54 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.3 mi from Matagorda, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.0 F with a dew point of 72.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
From the east (90 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
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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.