At an airfield/2.6 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Indian Beach, Florida
Beach in Sarasota County, Florida* WHAT...Northeast winds 20 to 30 knots with gusts up to 35 knots and seas 6 to 13 feet expected. * WHERE...Portions of Gulf of America. * WHEN...From 5 PM Saturday to 3 AM EDT Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
78°
88°/76°
Clear·
Feels like 78°·Light breeze 7 mph E
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Indian Beach until 3 AM Tuesday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (63%).
Now. Indian Beach is 78° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 75°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 77° by 3 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 (79%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 32 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
85%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8876
24%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8376
79%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
8067
23mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8167
15mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8266
14mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8267
13mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8267
13mph
UV 8
78°
88°76°
83°76°
80°67°
81°67°
82°66°
82°67°
82°67°
As of 4:00 AM in Indian Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Indian Beach
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 15 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Indian Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 Indian Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WSW 251°
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 Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 1 foot or less
- Water temperature
- In the lower 80s
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota, including Clearwater Beach, Saint Pete Beach, Bradenton Beach, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Turtle Beach, and Venice. Issued 3:13 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | 1 to 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | Low |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | 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 mid 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon | North winds around 5 mph | North winds 10 to 15 mph |
| Tides | Saint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM | Saint PetersburgHigh, 5:11 AMVenice InletHigh, 3:09 AM | Saint PetersburgLow, 2:14 PMVenice InletLow, 12:36 PM |
Beach
- County
- Sarasota County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 27.3639° N
- Longitude
- 82.5565° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Indian Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/21 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ward Lake Near Bradenton02300042
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sarasota 3.0 NFL-SS-78
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BradentonBRAF1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/26 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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Near Indian Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Sarasotacommunity, 2 mi
- Sarasotacity, 2 mi
- Desoto Acrescommunity, 3 mi
- Whitfieldcommunity, 3 mi
- Kensington Parkcommunity, 4 mi
- Desoto Lakescommunity, 4 mi
- Pinecraftcommunity, 4 mi
- Longboat Keytown, 5 mi
- Southgatecommunity, 5 mi
- Bayshore Gardenscommunity, 5 mi
- The Meadowscommunity, 5 mi
- South Sarasotacommunity, 6 mi
Beaches near Indian Beach
- Public Beach Access 26 mi
- Public Beach Access 36 mi
- Sarasota Beach6 mi
- Siesta Beach7 mi
- Crescent Beach8 mi
- Cresent Beach8 mi
- Siesta Key Beach8 mi
- Seven Pines13 mi