Sour Lake, Texas Weather
Sour Lake, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Sour Lake, Hardin County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Sour Lake. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Sour Lake is published on the Beaumont Municipal Airport (KBMT) page, 20 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. 6 airfields within reach of Sour Lake 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 Sour Lake: Hawthorne Field (K45R) 26 km · Liberty Municipal Airport (KT78) 28 km · Jack Brooks Regional Airport (KBPT) 43 km · Chambers County Airport (KT00) 48 km · Orange County Airport (KORG) 59 km
Conditions reported at KBMT describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Sour Lake specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Sour Lake.
About Sour Lake, Texas
Sour Lake, Texas, exhales a humid, pine-scented breath across a landscape of low-lying terraces and sluggish waterways. It lies 18.9 miles west-north-west of Beaumont, TX (from Beaumont, TX: bearing 282°T), and is situated 5.6 miles west-south-west of Pinewood Estates. The air here carries the perpetual dampness of the Gulf Coast plain, a clinging humidity that softens the edges of the world as the sun climbs high. Ancient live oaks, their limbs draped with Spanish moss like somber shawls, preside over scattered clearings, their roots gripping the sandy soil. Beyond the town's immediate embrace, the terrain flattens into a mosaic of pine forests, bayous, and the occasional shimmer of marshland, all contributing to a sense of gentle, verdant submission to the elements. Even the gravel roads that lead away from the main thoroughfares seem to absorb the persistent moisture, a muted, earthy brown against the vibrant greens of the surrounding foliage. The history of Sour Lake is intimately tied to the very ground it occupies, a narrative shaped by the black gold that lies beneath. Once a thriving hub for oil exploration and production, the echoes of that boom period still resonate, albeit in a quieter key. The local economy, though diversified, retains a connection to its resource-rich past, with remnants of the oil industry visible in weathered pump jacks and the occasional abandoned derrick silhouetted against the afternoon sky. This heritage is etched into the character of Sour Lake, a resilience born from boom and bust cycles. The town's distinctive scent, a faint tang of sulfur from the mineral springs that gave it its name, is a constant reminder of the unique geological bounty that first drew settlers to this part of Hardin County, a subtle perfume of the earth itself.
Live animated radar for Sour Lake 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 | Sour Lake, Hardin County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 30.140212°N, 94.411024°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77659 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sour Lake, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sour Lake, 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 Sour Lake includes coordinates 30.140212°N, 94.411024°W, situated in Hardin County. ZIP code 77659. Telephone area code: 281. 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.
