Brazos 451BQX
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Matagorda Beach, Texas
Beach in Matagorda County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph expected. * WHERE...Bolivar Peninsula, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island, and Matagorda Islands Counties. * WHEN...From 10 AM Friday to 1 PM CDT Saturday. * 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.
79°
86°/76°
Clear·
Feels like 79°·Gentle breeze 10 mph ESE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Matagorda Beach until 1 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Matagorda Beach is 79° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 74° 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 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 71°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 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 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
84%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
79feels79
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8676
19%
13mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8172
32%
30mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7159
26mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7459
17mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7863
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
8168
16%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
8370
14mph
79°
86°76°
81°72°
71°59°
74°59°
78°63°
81°68°
83°70°
As of 10:00 PM in Matagorda Beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Matagorda Beach
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Victoria (TX), 65 miles off.
35Good
- Ozone35Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Matagorda Beach
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
Visibility
How far you can see at Matagorda Beach, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 124°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Matagorda County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 28.6106° N
- Longitude
- 95.9420° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Matagorda Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 15.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Colorado Rv nr Bay City08162500
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Palacios 11.5 NNETX-MTG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.4 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bay City WaterworksBAYT2
At a cooperative observer's station/26.6 mi away/62 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Matagorda Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Beaches near Matagorda Beach
- Palacious Bay Beach18 mi
- Shell Beach22 mi
- King Fisher Beach30 mi
- Magnolia Beach Park36 mi
- Lighthouse Beach41 mi
- Bryan Beach41 mi
- Surfside beach46 mi
- San Luis Beach60 mi