Citizen station CW3609CW3609
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Blind Pass Beach, Florida
Beach in Lee County, Florida76°
90°/75°
Clear·
Feels like 76°·Light breeze 6 mph ENE
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 76% around 3 PM.
Now. Blind Pass Beach is 76° and clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 82° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (85%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:26 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 33 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
96%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
76feels76
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
9075
51%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8375
85%
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8168
18%
21mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8267
16mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8367
14mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8366
13mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8366
10%
UV 8
76°
90°75°
83°75°
81°68°
82°67°
83°67°
83°66°
83°66°
As of 8:00 AM in Blind Pass Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Blind Pass Beach
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Fort Myers (FL), 26 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good20.5 mi
- Ozone13Good11 ppb13.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good20.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Blind Pass Beach
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.23in
- Last 3 days
- 0.23in
Visibility
How far you can see at Blind Pass Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing W 266°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 1 foot or less
- Water temperature
- In the mid 80s
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee, including Manasota Key, Palm Island, Captiva, Sanibel, and Fort Myers Beach. Issued 3:13 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | Low |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Partly cloudy until 7 PM, then mostly cloudy until 12 AM, then partly cloudy until 1 AM, then mostly cloudy until 2 AM, then partly cloudy until 5 AM, then mostly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Numerous showers with isolated thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | - | In the lower 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the upper 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon | Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight | North winds 5 to 10 mph |
| Tides | Venice InletLow, 11:28 AMFort Myers BeachLow, 11:32 AM | Venice InletHigh, 3:09 AMFort Myers BeachHigh, 4:01 AM | Venice InletLow, 12:36 PMFort Myers BeachLow, 12:40 PM |
Beach
- County
- Lee County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 26.4809° N
- Longitude
- 82.1814° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Blind Pass Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort MyersNDBC-FMRF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sanibel 1.5 WFL-LE-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NaplesNPLF1
At a cooperative observer's station/36.0 mi away/30 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
Elsewhere in Florida
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Blind Pass Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Captivacommunity, 3 mi
- St. James Citycommunity, 6 mi
- Sanibelcity, 8 mi
- Pine Island Centercommunity, 11 mi
- Punta Rassacommunity, 12 mi
- Matlachacommunity, 13 mi
- Pinelandcommunity, 13 mi
- Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shorescommunity, 14 mi
- Ionacommunity, 14 mi
- Bokeeliacommunity, 14 mi
- Harlem Heightscommunity, 16 mi
- Cape Coralcity, 16 mi
Beaches near Blind Pass Beach
- Turner Beachunder 1 mi
- Bowman's Beach Park1 mi
- Andy Rosse Lane Beach3 mi
- Wightman Lane Beach3 mi
- Laika Lane Beach3 mi
- Turner's Beach3 mi
- Allison Hagerup Beach3 mi
- Calusa Point7 mi