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Sunset Beach, Connecticut

Beach in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

Air quality

The air at Sunset Beach

Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, New Haven (CT), 8 miles off.

18Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good5.6 mi
  • Ozone14Good22 ppb5.6 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)8Good5.6 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide9Good10.2 ppb5.6 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb5.6 mi
  • Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm5.6 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sunset Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Sunset Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 9 PM.

FriSat
Sunset Beach from its sand, nowLooking SSW from the sand at 10:39 PM, night, clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.200210220SW230Facing SSW 211°Wind 4 mphfrom SSE, onshore
Looking SSW from the sand at 10:39 PM, night, clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.
NESW

Facing SSW 211°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

County
South Central Connecticut Planning Region
State
Connecticut
Latitude
41.2493° N
Longitude
72.8182° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Sunset Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station N1HUIN1HUI

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

New Haven/TweedHVN

At an airfield/3.7 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

New Haven Tweed APHVN

At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Branford 0.3 WNWCT-NH-70

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/33 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

GuilfordGULC3

At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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