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Mattole Beach, California

Beach in Humboldt County, California

Air quality

The air at Mattole Beach

Index 53, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Eureka (CA), 37 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 39 or under.

ThuFriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Mattole Beach

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 Mattole Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 AM.

ThuFriSat
Mattole Beach from its sand, nowLooking WNW from the sand at 7:40 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 3.9 ft every 13 s.W280290300Facing WNW 289°Moon 77° leftWind 5 mphfrom NNW, onshoreSwell 3.9 ft from WNW
Looking WNW from the sand at 7:40 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 3.9 ft every 13 s.
NESW

Facing WNW 289°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 46022, 31.0 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
31.0 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
40.2890° N
Longitude
124.3573° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Mattole Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Cooskie Mtn RAWSPTEC1

A remote fire weather station/6.0 mi away/1,371 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

FortunaFOT

At an airfield/21.8 mi away/369 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station CW5061CW5061

In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/201 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Petrolia 4.0 SWCA-HM-95

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/341 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

ScotiaSCTC1

At a cooperative observer's station/18.9 mi away/138 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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