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Marine Weather and Tides Galveston, TX Version 3.4

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Sunrise 6:59AM

Sunset 5:22PM

Saturday December 7, 2019 4:01 PM CST (22:01 UTC)

Moonrise 2:40PM

Moonset 2:34AM

Illumination 83%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Galveston, TX

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Area Discussion for - Houston/Galveston, TX

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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 400 PM CST Sat Dec 7 2019

Short Term (Through Tomorrow). The short term will be relatively quiet with light winds, near normal temperatures, and no chance of precipitation. The flow does become more easterly then southeasterly through the evening and over night. This will bring in some increased low level moisture developing into some patchy fog during the overnight hours. Guidance is currently picking up on the patchy fog developing mainly south of Houston shortly after midnight, then up in Polk and San Jacinto counties by sunrise. Any fog that does form should dissipate shortly after sunrise. The southerly wind on Sunday will result in high temperatures becoming a few degrees warmer than today, but the skies will be more partly cloudy. Fowler

Long Term (Tomorrow night through Saturday). This period beginning the new work week will provide change in the weather. The next impetus to early work week precipitation will be the emergence and development/evolution of a positively-tilted Central U.S. upper trough out of the Rockies into the Plains states early Monday. The trough axis is forecast to deepen through the day Monday as it progressively digs southeast across the Lone Star. At the surface, the low (pressure) reflection will begin to get its act together over the Panhandle/western Texas counties Monday afternoon and travel along the lower level cold front moving across the escarpment around sunset. This front is timed to reach our northern counties late Monday night and be off the coastline by sunrise Tuesday. A shallow cool air mass sliding in under a warmer mid-layer southwesterly flow will create enough isentropic lift to produce just periods of light rain (drizzle) or rain showers through the day Tuesday. Decent upper level support coupled with robust frontogenesis suggest that inland storms could get rooted aloft with more surface-based storms occurring far offshore Tuesday afternoon into evening. As of now, the warm nose looks to be too stout to mention any surface-based storm activity. Showery weather will produce low QPF; average areawide quarter to a half of an inch.

Pleasant post-frontal mid to late week weather as the upper air pattern becomes more zonal. Light north winds on Wednesday will become northeast Thursday before a reinforcing cool front (mainly dry inland with slight offshore -shra chances) keeps winds north Friday going into the weekend. A pristine start to next weekend under clearing skies under variable winds . morning 40s warm up into the very comfortable 60s with afternoon humidities falling to under 50%. 31

MARINE. Light onshore flow begins this evening and continue through Sunday, then strengthening on Monday ahead of an approaching cold front. This front should pass through the region Tuesday morning bringing increased rain chances as it passes through. The frontal passage will usher in moderate to strong offshore flow Tuesday night through Wednesday approaching advisory criteria with 5 to 7 foot seas. Fowler

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS. College Station (CLL) 48 74 61 81 45 / 0 0 0 10 50 Houston (IAH) 50 73 63 80 54 / 0 0 0 10 50 Galveston (GLS) 58 70 65 77 60 / 0 0 0 10 60

HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. TX . NONE. GM . NONE.

Short/Marine . 11 Long . 31

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Stations	Dist	Age	Wind	Air Temp	Water Temp	Waves	Pressure	DewPt
KXIH	25 mi	26 min	E 5.1	61°F				55°F
42035 - GALVESTON 22NM East of Galveston, TX	27 mi	31 min	E 3.9 G 5.8				1023.1 hPa
GTOT2	40 mi	49 min	N 6 G 8	67°F	65°F		1021.8 hPa
GNJT2 - 8771341 - Galveston Bay (North Jetty), TX	41 mi	49 min	N 5.1 G 7	67°F	65°F		1020.9 hPa
GRRT2	43 mi	49 min	ENE 7 G 8	66°F	64°F		1021.6 hPa
LUIT2	44 mi	43 min	E 5.1 G 6	65°F	66°F		1023.4 hPa
RLOT2 - 8770971 - Rollover Pass, TX	47 mi	43 min	S 7 G 8.9	64°F	65°F		1022.1 hPa

Wind History for Galveston Pleasure Pier, TX

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Airport Reports

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High Island 179A (Apache Corp), LA	25 mi	66 min	E 4	10.00 mi	Fair	61°F	55°F	83%	1022.3 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for Galveston (Pleasure Pier), Texas (2)

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Tide / Current Tables for Galveston Bay entrance, south jetty, Texas

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Wind Forecast for Houston/Galveston, TX (17,4,5,8)

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Ground Weather Radar Station Houston/Galveston, TX

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