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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Surfside beach, Texas
Beach in Brazoria County, Texas* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. * WHERE...Bolivar Peninsula, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island, and Matagorda Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until 1 PM CDT this afternoon. * 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.
62°
72°/56°
Clear·
Feels like 62°·Moderate breeze 17 mph N
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Surfside beach until 1 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Surfside beach is 62° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 4 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 12:09 AM after midnight. 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.
0UV Low
34Air quality
44%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
62feels62
17mph
Today
Oct 17
7256
19mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7455
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7858
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8162
15%
Wed
Oct 21
8464
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
8562
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
8663
overcast
62°
72°56°
74°55°
78°58°
81°62°
84°64°
85°62°
86°63°
As of 1:00 AM in Surfside beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Surfside beach
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (TX), 55 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)25Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 74YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- ModerateSunOct 18
- ModerateMonOct 19
- ModerateTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Surfside beach
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 12 AM. 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 Surfside beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 143°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 42035, 56.5 mi away.
Waves at buoy 42035, Galveston
- Wave height
- 5.6 ft
- Period
- -
- From
- NNE (23°)
- Swell
- 0.0 ft
- Wind waves
- 5.6 ft at 5 s from NNE
- Water
- 82 °F
- Read
- Sat 12:40 AM
- Distance
- 56.5 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12:40 AM | 5.6 ft | - | NNE (23°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 5 s | NE (34°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 5 s | NNE (26°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (32°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 5 s | NNE (12°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 5.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (16°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 4 s | NNE (17°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | N (8°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | N (9°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | N (6°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | N (359°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | N (3°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SSE (159°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | SE (139°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | SE (140°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | SE (131°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SE (138°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | SE (144°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (134°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | ESE (118°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SE (126°) |
Beach
- County
- Brazoria County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 28.9489° N
- Longitude
- 95.2859° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Surfside beach, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW9349DW9349
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.9 mi away/22 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Freeport 0.3 SWTX-BRZ-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FreeportDOWT2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Freeport (DOWT2), 6.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Surfside beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Quintanatown, 4 mi
- Oyster Creekcity, 4 mi
- Freeportcity, 5 mi
- Clutecity, 9 mi
- Richwoodcity, 11 mi
- Lake Jacksoncity, 11 mi
- Jones Creekvillage, 12 mi
- Angletoncity, 18 mi
- Brazoriacity, 18 mi
- Bailey's Prairievillage, 18 mi
- Danburycity, 20 mi
- Wild Peach Villagecommunity, 23 mi
Beaches near Surfside beach
- Bryan Beach5 mi
- San Luis Beach14 mi
- West Beach23 mi
- Jamaica Beach25 mi
- Galveston Beach27 mi
- Palm Beach27 mi
- Pirates Beach28 mi
- Bermuda Beach28 mi