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Zapata Cnty wind
Zapata Cnty is a land weather station near Zapata. The readings come from Aviation weather (METAR), and Telltale keeps every one of them so the history on this page is the station's own record.
Latest observation
The latest reading at Zapata Cnty is a wind of 5 kn from the NNE (20°), observed at 2026-11-03 23:35 UTC (Tuesday 3 Nov 17:35 local time, America/Chicago). The air temperature was 30°C. Sea-level pressure was 1011 hPa.
The last 24 hours
Over the 24 hours to that reading, Zapata Cnty averaged 5 kn across 63 observations, with a strongest gust of 16 kn and a strongest mean wind of 11 kn. The prevailing direction, weighted by wind speed, was ESE (123°).
About this station
- Type
- land weather station
- Source
- Aviation weather (METAR)
- Position
- 26.969, -99.249
- Exposure
- unknown
Telltale has not classified how exposed Zapata Cnty is, so compare it with nearby stations before relying on its absolute numbers.
Reading these numbers
The mean wind is averaged over the station's reporting period, and a gust is the strongest short burst inside it, so a gust is always at least the mean. Speeds are in knots, directions are where the wind blows from, and times are given in UTC with the station's local time beside them. A station measures its own spot; a forecast model describes a grid cell, so the two can differ by a few knots even when the forecast is good. Zapata Cnty is one of the stations Telltale compares with the forecast models before it shapes the live wind map; understand the weather models or how coastal wind behaves.