Port Arthur WestTCEQ-28
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/13 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Port Arthur until 9 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 83° today.
Now. Port Arthur is 75° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° 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 7, 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 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Port Arthur, Texas.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Beaumont-Port Arthur (TX), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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
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The 6 instruments nearest Port Arthur, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Port Arthur WestTCEQ-28
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/13 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/15 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW9386FW9386
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/12 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BeaumontS2207
At a soil climate station/24.0 mi away/19 ft/13 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
CityPTHT2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/13 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Port Arthur 7.0 NTX-JJ-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/7 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.2 mi from Port Arthur, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.0 F with a dew point of 74.0 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
From the east (100 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 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.