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Lost Coast, California

Beach in Humboldt County, California

Air quality

The air at Lost Coast

Index 53, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Eureka (CA), 28 miles off.

53Moderate
  • Coarse particles (PM10)53Moderate-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 23, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 AM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.

ThuFriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Lost Coast

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Lost Coast, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 11 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 10 PM.

ThuFriSat
Lost Coast from its sand, nowLooking WSW from the sand at 7:39 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 3.9 ft every 13 s.240250260WFacing WSW 256°Moon 44° leftWind 3 mphfrom NNW, along the beachSwell 3.9 ft from WNWLongshore current, to the left
Looking WSW from the sand at 7:39 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 3.9 ft every 13 s.
NESW

Facing WSW 256°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 46022, 20.4 mi away.

Waves at buoy 46022, Eel River

Wave height
4.9 ft
Period
13 s
From
WNW (283°)
Swell
4.9 ft at 13 s from WNW
Wind waves
1.0 ft at 4 s from NW
Water
56 °F
Read
Thu 6:50 PM
Distance
20.4 mi

Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.

Wave height at buoy 46022, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 4.3 ft to 6.9 ft; 4.9 ft at Thu 6:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftWed6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon4.9 ftWave height at buoy 46022, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 4.3 ft to 6.9 ft; 4.9 ft at Thu 6:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftWedNoonThuNoon4.9 ft
Significant wave height from 4.3 ft to 6.9 ft; 4.9 ft at Thu 6:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Thu 6:50 PM4.9 ft13 sWNW (283°)
Thu 5:50 PM5.6 ft12 sW (269°)
Thu 4:50 PM5.6 ft13 sWNW (301°)
Thu 3:50 PM5.2 ft15 sW (279°)
Thu 2:50 PM5.2 ft15 sWNW (284°)
Thu 1:50 PM5.2 ft15 sW (260°)
Thu 12:50 PM4.9 ft15 sSW (235°)
Thu 11:50 AM4.9 ft13 sWNW (299°)
Thu 10:50 AM4.9 ft14 sWNW (284°)
Thu 9:50 AM4.9 ft15 sWSW (248°)
Thu 8:50 AM4.9 ft13 sW (279°)
Thu 7:50 AM4.9 ft14 sW (267°)
Thu 6:50 AM5.2 ft14 sWNW (296°)
Thu 5:50 AM5.6 ft12 sNW (312°)
Thu 4:50 AM5.2 ft15 sSW (227°)
Thu 3:50 AM5.2 ft15 sWNW (296°)
Thu 2:50 AM5.2 ft13 sW (280°)
Thu 1:50 AM4.9 ft16 sW (261°)
Thu 12:50 AM5.6 ft15 sW (271°)
Wed 11:50 PM5.2 ft13 sWNW (283°)
Wed 10:50 PM4.9 ft14 sWNW (291°)
Wed 9:50 PM4.6 ft14 sW (267°)
Wed 8:50 PM4.3 ft16 sSW (222°)
Wed 7:50 PM4.6 ft16 sW (261°)

Beach

County
Humboldt County
State
California
Latitude
40.4385° N
Longitude
124.4095° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Lost Coast, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Cooskie Mtn RAWSPTEC1

A remote fire weather station/15.0 mi away/1,371 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

FortunaFOT

At an airfield/16.6 mi away/369 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station CW5061CW5061

In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.3 mi away/201 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Ferndale 8.4 SSWCA-HM-219

In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/176 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

ScotiaSCTC1

At a cooperative observer's station/16.4 mi away/138 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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