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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Higgs Beach, Florida
Beach in Monroe County, Florida84°
88°/81°
Clear·
Feels like 95°·Gentle breeze 13 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow night, from about 11 PM, the chance peaking at 52% around 9 AM.
Now. Higgs Beach is 84° and clear at 10 PM. With the humidity it feels like 95°. The dew point is 78°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 83°, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. Highs stay close to 87° all week. Rain or snow is likely tomorrow (50%), Saturday (74%), Sunday (88%) and Monday (61%). Rain is possible Tuesday (32%). The windiest day is Monday, with wind to 22 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 37 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
-Air quality
82%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
84feels95
13mph
Today
Oct 15
8881
30%
12mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
8881
50%
12mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8679
74%
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8576
88%
21mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8576
61%
22mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8676
32%
22mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8576
28%
20mph
UV 8
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85°76°
As of 10:00 PM in Higgs Beach, Florida.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Higgs 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 Higgs Beach, the next 41 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing S 172°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 42095, 14.8 mi away.
Waves at buoy 42095, Satan Shoal
- Wave height
- 2.3 ft
- Period
- 3 s
- From
- ESE (102°)
- Swell
- 0.0 ft at 20 s from SE
- Wind waves
- 2.3 ft at 3 s from ESE
- Water
- 86 °F
- Read
- Thu 10:00 PM
- Distance
- 14.8 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 10:00 PM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | ESE (102°) |
| Thu 9:30 PM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | E (99°) |
| Thu 8:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (110°) |
| Thu 7:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 2 s | E (99°) |
| Thu 6:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | SE (130°) |
| Thu 5:30 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | ESE (116°) |
| Thu 4:30 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | SE (134°) |
| Thu 3:30 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | SE (130°) |
| Thu 2:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (123°) |
| Thu 1:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (123°) |
| Thu 12:30 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (118°) |
| Thu 11:30 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | ESE (111°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (111°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (104°) |
| Thu 8:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (125°) |
| Thu 7:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ESE (116°) |
| Thu 6:30 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (121°) |
| Thu 5:30 AM | 2.3 ft | 5 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 4:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | E (99°) |
| Thu 3:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 2:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (90°) |
| Thu 1:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (91°) |
| Thu 12:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (87°) |
| Wed 11:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (96°) |
Beach
- County
- Monroe County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 24.5468° N
- Longitude
- 81.7888° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Higgs Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Key WestEYW
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Key West 1.0 SWFL-MN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Key West WFOKWFF1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/13 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
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