Cedar KeyNDBC-CDRF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 76° after 88° today.
Now. City Beach is 76° and partly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the west at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 69° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:22 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in City Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Citrus County (FL), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing SSE 148°
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 Levy-Coastal Citrus-Coastal Hernando-Coastal Pasco.
Coastal Levy-Coastal Citrus-Coastal Hernando-Coastal Pasco, including Cedar Key, Yankeetown, Crystal River, Homosassa, Pine Island, Bayport, Hernando Beach, Hudson, and Port Richey. 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 | Around 80 | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | Low | Low |
| Weather | Mostly sunny | Mostly cloudy until 11 PM, then partly cloudy until 1 AM, then mostly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | - | In the mid 70s |
| Low temperature | - | In the upper 60s | - |
| Winds | East winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon | Northwest winds around 5 mph | North winds around 20 mph |
| Tides | Cedar KeyLow, 12:10 PMSaint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PM | Cedar KeyHigh, 6:51 PMLow, 11:50 PMHigh, 5:31 AMSaint PetersburgHigh, 5:11 AM | Cedar KeyLow, 12:55 PMSaint PetersburgLow, 2:14 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest City Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Cedar KeyNDBC-CDRF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6832GW6832
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.5 mi away/34 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/33.4 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cedar Key 0.2 NWFL-LV-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Usher Forestry TwrCHIF1
At a cooperative observer's station/22.7 mi away/69 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.