Saguaro LakeFCDMC-63501
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.3 mi away/1,540 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Back Beach, Arizona
Beach in Maricopa County, Arizona* WHAT...East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 to 55 mph expected. * WHERE...Mazatzal Mountains and Rio Verde/Salt River. * WHEN...From 5 AM Friday to 11 AM MST Saturday. * IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions, especially for larger vehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light, unsecured objects may become airborne.
A Wind Advisory means that sustained wind speeds of between 30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and 58 mph. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. In addition, strong winds over desert areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand. Use extra caution.
74°
86°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NNE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Back Beach until 11 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Back Beach is 74° and clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 13 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 76°. Rain is possible Saturday (30%), Tuesday (47%) and Wednesday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:13 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
40Air quality
25%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
74feels74
13mph
Today
Oct 15
8653
19mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
8365
20mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7662
30%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
7963
13%
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
8163
21%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
8065
47%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7763
49%
UV 6
74°
86°53°
83°65°
76°62°
79°63°
81°63°
80°65°
77°63°
As of 7:00 PM in Back Beach, Arizona.
Air quality
The air at Back Beach
Index 40, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, McDowell (AZ), 22 miles off.
40Good
- Ozone40Good24 ppb14.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good13.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Back Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Back Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Latitude
- 33.5768° N
- Longitude
- 111.3590° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Back Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW7132FW7132
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/1,794 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/22.7 mi away/1,391 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mormon FlatTRTA3
At a cooperative observer's station/5.1 mi away/1,962 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fort McDowell 4.9 ESEAZ-MR-605
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.1 mi away/1,738 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mormon Flat (TRTA3), 5.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:19. measured daily
Elsewhere in Arizona
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Back Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Rooseveltcommunity, 15 mi
- Gold Canyoncommunity, 16 mi
- Apache Junctioncity, 16 mi
- Tonto Basincommunity, 19 mi
- Queen Valleycommunity, 20 mi
- Roosevelt Estatescommunity, 20 mi
- Rio Verdecommunity, 21 mi
- Fountain Hillstown, 21 mi
- Rock Housecommunity, 24 mi
- Superiortown, 25 mi
- Mesacity, 26 mi
- Top-of-the-Worldcommunity, 26 mi
Beaches near Back Beach
- Fish Beachunder 1 mi
- Sandy Beach6 mi
- Buckhorn Beach10 mi
- Illinois33 mi
- Palo Verde Beach35 mi
- Tempe Beach Park35 mi
- Tempe Town Lake North Beach - Boat Beach35 mi
- Boat Beach179 mi