Laguna Atascosa RAWSATRT2
A remote fire weather station/10.5 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
UFO Beach, Texas
Beach in Cameron County, TexasWind Advisory, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected. * WHERE...Cameron Island, Coastal Cameron, Coastal Kenedy, Coastal Willacy, Kenedy Island, and Willacy Island 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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strongest wind gusts are expected Friday night.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Secure outdoor objects.
78°
86°/74°
Clear·
Feels like 78°·Light air 3 mph ESE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for UFO Beach 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 13 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 86° today.
Now. UFO Beach is 78° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° 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 86°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 73°. Rain is possible Tuesday (37%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 27 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.
0UV Low
33Air quality
80%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8674
37%
31mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
7362
12%
27mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7762
11%
17mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
8266
12%
Tue
Oct 20
8471
37%
Wed
Oct 21
8574
26%
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
8673
10%
12mph
78°
86°74°
73°62°
77°62°
82°66°
84°71°
85°74°
86°73°
As of 12:00 AM in UFO Beach, Texas.
Air quality
The air at UFO Beach
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 31 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)33Good-
- Ozone33Good-
- 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
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at UFO Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 UFO Beach, the next 44 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NE 38°
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.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Moderate
- Surf height
- 2 to 4 feet
- Water temperature
- 84 °F
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
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 |
- Friday night
- Surf height 10 to 14 feet. Mostly cloudy. Cooler. Lows in the upper 60s. Windy. North winds around 30 mph
- Saturday
- Surf height 10 to 14 feet. Partly sunny. Cooler. Highs in the lower 70s. Windy. North winds around 30 mph
- Saturday night
- Surf height 4 to 8 feet. Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. North winds around 20 mph
- Sunday
- Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 20 mph
- Sunday night
- Surf height 2 to 5 feet. Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. North winds around 10 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 3 to 4 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 10 mph
Beach
- County
- Cameron County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 26.2943° N
- Longitude
- 97.1950° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest UFO Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Port Isabel-Cameron County AptPIL
At an airfield/12.8 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW1996DW1996
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/11 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Padre Island 1.6 NNWTX-CMR-132
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port IsabelPIST2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.8 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near UFO Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- South Padre Islandtown, 13 mi
- Laguna Vistatown, 15 mi
- Laguna Heightscommunity, 15 mi
- Port Isabelcity, 15 mi
- Bayviewtown, 17 mi
- La Tina Ranchcommunity, 17 mi
- Arroyo Gardenscommunity, 20 mi
- Del Mar Heightscommunity, 21 mi
- Chula Vistacommunity, 21 mi
- Orasoncommunity, 22 mi
- Laurelescommunity, 22 mi
- Lozanocommunity, 23 mi
Beaches near UFO Beach
- Thrive Beach3 mi
- South Padre Island Nude Beach6 mi
- Aurora 19 Public Beach Access12 mi
- Isla Blanca Beach16 mi
- Del Mar Beach18 mi
- Boca Chica Beach21 mi
- Boca Chica Beach23 mi
- Little Shell67 mi