Isla Blanca ParkTCEQ-323
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wind Advisory, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Aurora 19 Public Beach Access until 1 PM tomorrow. 3 more alerts are 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 73° after 87° today.
Now. Aurora 19 Public Beach Access is 78° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Wednesday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. Rain is possible Tuesday (36%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:29 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Aurora 19 Public Beach Access, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 33 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing E 81°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
The surf zone forecast for Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island.
Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island, including South Padre Island and Boca Chica. Issued 2:22 AM CDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Low | High |
| Surf height | 2 to 4 feet | Around 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet, building to 6 to 9 feet in the afternoon |
| Surf temperature | 84 °F | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None | Low |
| Weather | Sunny | Mostly clear | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the mid 80s | - | In the mid 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the upper 70s | - |
| Winds | Southeast winds around 15 mph | East winds 5 to 10 mph | Windy. North winds around 10 mph, increasing to around 30 mph in the afternoon |
| Tides | South Padre IslandLow, 12:12 PM | South Padre IslandHigh, 11:40 PM | South Padre IslandLow, 1:03 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest Aurora 19 Public Beach Access, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Isla Blanca ParkTCEQ-323
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW1996DW1996
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/11 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Port Isabel-Cameron County AptPIL
At an airfield/10.9 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Padre Island 1.6 NNWTX-CMR-132
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port IsabelPIST2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.