Weslaco ScanWCOT2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/57 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ratamosa, Texas
Community in Cameron County, TexasRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS FRIDAY NIGHT INCREASE WILDFIRE THREAT... .A strong front pushes south through Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley on Friday, with a secondary surge of strong northerly winds arriving late Friday evening into late Saturday morning. Relative humidity values are expected to drop Friday afternoon with little to no recovery into Saturday morning. Any wildfire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread due to strong winds and lower humidity. A Red Flag Warning is in effect. The National Weather Service in Brownsville has issued a Red Flag Warning for Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 1 PM Friday to 7 AM CDT Saturday. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * WINDS...Northerly 15-25 mph, gusting as high as 35-55 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 25 to 40 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fire that can develop will behave dangerously with erratic growth and spread.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
76°
88°/71°
Clear·
Feels like 76°·Calm 1 mph ESE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Ratamosa until 7 AM 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 14 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 88° today.
Now. Ratamosa is 76° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. 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 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:32 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 33 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
38Air quality
81%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
76feels76
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8871
33%
25mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7459
22mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7857
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8363
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8867
24%
Wed
Oct 21
9071
25%
Thu
Oct 22
9171
overcast
76°
88°71°
74°59°
78°57°
83°63°
88°67°
90°71°
91°71°
As of 12:00 AM in Ratamosa, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Ratamosa
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 9 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)38Good-
- Ozone30Good29 ppb7.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)21Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ratamosa
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ratamosa, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ratamosa, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Ratamosa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank2,650of 4,689
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/7.9 mi away/57 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
WeslacoTXW
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/70 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8690CW8690
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/21 ft/37 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Edinburg 17 NNE12987
At a climate reference station/25.5 mi away/64 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
La Feria 0.4 ESETX-CMR-88
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/54 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WeslacoWEST2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/69 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Weslaco, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.2 mi from Ratamosa, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
77.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Weslaco, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Ratamosa
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- La Feria Northcommunity, 2 mi
- Heidelbergcommunity, 3 mi
- Soliscommunity, 3 mi
- La Feriacity, 4 mi
- Santa Rosatown, 4 mi
- Indian Hillscommunity, 4 mi
- Bixbycommunity, 4 mi
- Tierra Bonitacommunity, 5 mi
- Palm Valleycity, 6 mi
- Mercedescity, 6 mi
- Primeratown, 6 mi
- Las Palmas IIcommunity, 6 mi