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Black Sand Beach, Alaska

Beach in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
Black Sand Beach from its sand, nowLooking ESE from the sand at 6:41 PM, night, overcast, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.E100110120Facing ESE 105°Moon 100° rightWind 14 mphfrom SSE, onshore
Looking ESE from the sand at 6:41 PM, night, overcast, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.
NESW

Facing ESE 105°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

Borough
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
State
Alaska
Latitude
55.2861° N
Longitude
131.6347° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Black Sand Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

GW5586 Walden Point 0.8 SEG5586

At a river or reservoir gauge/2.7 mi away/182 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station GW5586GW5586

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/210 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Metlakatla 6 S25381

At a climate reference station/17.1 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Ketchikan 4.8 SEAK-KG-3

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/21 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Ketchikan AirportKTN

At an airfield/6.1 mi away/84 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

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Snow on the ground

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