At a river or reservoir gauge/10.8 mi away/-26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 86° today.
Now. Carabelle Beach is 71° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:27 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Carabelle Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Liberty County (FL), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing SSE 154°
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.
The surf zone forecast for Coastal Franklin.
Coastal Franklin, including Apalachicola. Issued 11:53 AM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | Around 1 foot |
| Water temperature | 78 °F | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Weather | Sunny | Mostly sunny |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | In the lower 80s |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:41 AM | 7:41 AM |
| Sunset | 7:10 PM | 7:09 PM |
| Tides | ApalachicolaLow, 1:52 PM | ApalachicolaHigh, 6:01 AMLow, 2:40 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest Carabelle Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.8 mi away/-26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wakulla #1S2009
At a soil climate station/36.9 mi away/150 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Carrabelle 1.1 WFL-FR-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/-26 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.