At an airfield/2.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for University Beach until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 75° after 84° today.
Now. University Beach is 79° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° 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 87°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 75°. Rain is possible Tuesday (36%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 30 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in University Beach, Texas.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Corpus Christi (TX), 7 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Facing N 358°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The waves at buoy PHCT2, 18.3 mi away.
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.
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12:00 AM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 11:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 10:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 9:00 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 8:00 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 7:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 6:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 5:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 4:00 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 2:00 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 1:00 PM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 12:00 PM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 11:00 AM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 10:00 AM | 3.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 9:00 AM | 3.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 8:00 AM | 3.6 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 7:00 AM | 3.9 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 6:00 AM | 3.9 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 5:00 AM | 3.9 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 4:00 AM | 3.9 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 3:00 AM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 1:00 AM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Thu 12:00 AM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | - |
| Wed 11:00 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | - |
The 6 instruments nearest University Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/2.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Corpus Christi WestTCEQ-4
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/39 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW3037GW3037
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
KingsvilleS2206
At a soil climate station/36.1 mi away/67 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Corpus Christi 3.1 WNWTX-NU-92
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Port AransasPTTT2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/30 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.