Los Altos, Texas Weather
Los Altos, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Los Altos, Webb County.
Full aviation weather for Los Altos is published on the Laredo International Airport (KLRD) page, 10 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 2 airfields within reach of Los Altos have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Los Altos: Zapata County Airport (KAPY) 60 km
Conditions reported at KLRD describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Los Altos specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Los Altos.
About Los Altos, Texas
Los Altos unfolds across a landscape sculpted by the persistent hand of arid winds and the sun's unrelenting gaze. It lies 7.5 miles east of Laredo, TX (from Laredo, TX: bearing 98°T), and is situated 4.7 miles west of Pueblo Nuevo. Here, the earth, a palette of ochre and baked umber, stretches out in broad, often featureless plains that nevertheless hold a stark, enduring beauty, punctuated by the occasional thorny mesquite or stoic prickly pear cactus. The air, thin and carrying the faint scent of dust and dry grass, hums with an almost palpable stillness, broken only by the distant cry of a hawk or the whisper of wind through sparse vegetation. Evenings bring a softening of the harsh light, the sky bleeding into hues of rose and violet, casting long, distorted shadows that lend a theatrical quality to the otherwise unadorned terrain, a quiet drama played out between earth and sky. This corner of Webb County carries the indelible marks of a history tied to the land and the enduring spirit of those who have sought to draw sustenance from it. The economy here, like the landscape, is a testament to resilience, built on the sturdy foundations of ranching and the quiet hum of oil and gas operations that dot the periphery, their derricks like skeletal sentinels against the horizon. Generations have navigated the challenges and quiet rewards of this semi-arid expanse, fostering a character that is both stoic and deeply rooted, a place where the rhythm of life is dictated less by the clock and more by the turning of the seasons and the dependable cycle of the sun. The very soil of Los Altos seems to hold the echoes of past endeavors, a quiet narrative whispered on the breeze to those who pause long enough to listen.
Live animated radar for Los Altos and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Los Altos, Webb County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 27.4904°N, 99.3858°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 78043 |
| Area Code | 210, 726 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Los Altos, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Los Altos, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Los Altos includes coordinates 27.490400°N, 99.385800°W, situated in Webb County. ZIP code 78043. Telephone area code: 210, 726. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
