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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Smithville, Texas
City in Bastrop County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts of 40 to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...All of South Central Texas. * WHEN...From 4 AM to 7 PM CDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Secure outdoor objects.
75°
71°/63°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 75°·Calm 0 mph SE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Smithville until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Smithville is 75° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 61° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:18 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
82%Humidity
31%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
75feels75
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
7163
64%
23mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6950
16mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7246
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7850
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
8457
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8860
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
9061
overcast
75°
71°63°
69°50°
72°46°
78°50°
84°57°
88°60°
90°61°
As of 12:00 AM in Smithville, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Smithville
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Austin (TX), 39 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Smithville
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 Smithville, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Smithville, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Smithville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank761of 4,689
At an airfield/13.9 mi away/325 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station NN5DX-11NN5DX-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.8 mi away/529 ft/206 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Smithville 0.3 NETX-BST-171
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/325 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Giddings 3ESEGIDT2
At a cooperative observer's station/21.6 mi away/466 ft/143 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at La Grange/Fayette Regional, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.9 mi from Smithville, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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 Smithville
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.