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Beaches/California/South Beach Park
South Beach Park, California
Beach in San Francisco County, CaliforniaBeach Hazards Statement, in full
* WHAT...An increased risk for sneaker waves and strong rip currents with breaking waves of 7 to 12 ft. * WHERE...Pacific Coast beaches. * WHEN...3 AM Saturday through 9 PM Sunday. * IMPACTS...Waves can sweep across the shoreline without warning, pulling people into the sea from beaches, jetties, and rocks.
Stay off of jetties, piers, rocks, and other waterside infrastructure. Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous surf and NEVER turn your back on the ocean. Monitor local weather, surf and tide forecasts at www.weather.gov/mtr.
83°
85°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 82°·Light air 4 mph NW
Alert. A Beach Hazards Statement is in force for South Beach Park until 9 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 85° today.
Now. South Beach Park is 83° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 58° by 7 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 67°, and the coolest Monday, near 60°. Rain is possible Tuesday (36%) and Wednesday (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:37 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
34Air quality
38%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 PM
83feels82
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
8563
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6757
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6052
11%
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6450
36%
Wed
Oct 21
6754
45%
Thu
Oct 22
6555
29%
12mph
Fri
Oct 23
6453
12mph
83°
85°63°
67°57°
60°52°
64°50°
67°54°
65°55°
64°53°
As of 2:00 PM in South Beach Park, California.
Air quality
The air at South Beach Park
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, San Francisco (CA), 3 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
- Ozone34Good-
The days ahead
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 16
- 55TodayOct 17
- 50SunOct 18
- 44MonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 11 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Beach Park
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 1 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 South Beach Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Mon 11 AM, lowest 9 miles Sun 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 93°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 46026, 24.6 mi away.
Waves at buoy 46026, San Francisco
- Wave height
- 4.9 ft
- Period
- 13 s
- From
- WNW (295°)
- Swell
- 4.6 ft at 13 s from WNW
- Wind waves
- 1.6 ft at 5 s from WNW
- Water
- 61 °F
- Read
- Sat 1:20 PM
- Distance
- 24.6 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.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 1:20 PM | 4.9 ft | 13 s | WNW (295°) |
| Sat 12:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 13 s | WNW (286°) |
| Sat 11:50 AM | 4.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (298°) |
| Sat 10:50 AM | 4.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (292°) |
| Sat 9:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 13 s | WNW (293°) |
| Sat 8:20 AM | 4.3 ft | - | WNW (282°) |
| Sat 7:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 14 s | WNW (283°) |
| Sat 6:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (286°) |
| Sat 5:50 AM | 3.6 ft | - | WSW (258°) |
| Sat 4:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 14 s | W (267°) |
| Sat 3:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (285°) |
| Sat 2:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 14 s | WNW (289°) |
| Sat 1:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 14 s | W (271°) |
| Sat 12:50 AM | 3.3 ft | - | W (265°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 14 s | WSW (257°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 3.3 ft | - | SW (228°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 3.0 ft | - | SSW (197°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 15 s | SW (214°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 15 s | SW (231°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 15 s | SW (214°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 15 s | SW (216°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 3.0 ft | - | SSW (199°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 3.0 ft | - | SW (223°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 12 s | WSW (248°) |
Beach
- County
- San Francisco County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 37.7804° N
- Longitude
- 122.3886° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest South Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW4637FW4637
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/54 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OaklandOAK
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
San Francisco 0.8 NECA-SF-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/38 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/112 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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