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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida
Beach in Broward County, Florida82°
88°/79°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 90°·Gentle breeze 8 mph E
Now. Fort Lauderdale Beach is 82° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the humidity it feels like 90°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 80° by 4 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 89°, and the coolest Sunday, near 82°. Rain or snow is likely Saturday (96%), Sunday (80%) and Monday (50%). Rain is possible tomorrow (30%), Tuesday (44%) and Wednesday (30%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 35 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
82%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
82feels90
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
8879
40%
13mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8979
30%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8776
96%
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8273
80%
24mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8373
50%
18mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8473
44%
18mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8472
30%
16mph
UV 8
82°
88°79°
89°79°
87°76°
82°73°
83°73°
84°73°
84°72°
As of 10:00 PM in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Fort Lauderdale Beach
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Broward County (FL), 24 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good4.2 mi
- Ozone21Good23 ppb3.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good11.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.7 ppb3.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb11.4 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.6 ppm4.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Lauderdale Beach
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Lauderdale Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 98°
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 Broward.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- Around 1 foot
- Water temperature
- In the mid 80s
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Broward, including Fort Lauderdale. Issued 3:52 PM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low |
| Surf height | Around 1 foot | 1 to 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Moderate |
| Waterspout risk | None | None |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the upper 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 103 | Up to 105 |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph |
| Sunrise | 7:19 AM | 7:20 AM |
| Sunset | 6:54 PM | 6:53 PM |
| Tides | Miami Harbor EntranceHigh, 12:24 PM | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 6:27 AMHigh, 1:09 PM |
Beach
- County
- Broward County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 26.1406° N
- Longitude
- 80.1020° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Lauderdale Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Fort Lauderdale - HollywoodFLL
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2960GW2960
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fort Lauderdale 2.0 ENEFL-BW-152
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Fort Lauderdale Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wilton Manorscity, 3 mi
- Fort Lauderdalecity, 3 mi
- Lazy Lakevillage, 3 mi
- Oakland Parkcity, 4 mi
- Lauderdale-by-the-Seatown, 4 mi
- Sea Ranch Lakesvillage, 4 mi
- Franklin Parkcommunity, 5 mi
- Roosevelt Gardenscommunity, 5 mi
- Washington Parkcommunity, 5 mi
- Boulevard Gardenscommunity, 5 mi
- Lauderdale Lakescity, 7 mi
- Pompano Beachcity, 7 mi
Beaches near Fort Lauderdale Beach
- Hollywood North Beach Park7 mi
- Hollywood Beach8 mi
- South City Beach Park11 mi
- South Beach Park15 mi
- Sunny Isles Beach15 mi
- Haulover Beach16 mi
- Ocean Terrace Public Beach19 mi
- Indian Beach Park22 mi