Citizen station GW4304GW4304
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Manasota Public Beach, Florida
Beach in Sarasota County, Florida78°
85°/77°
Overcast·
Feels like 78°·Gentle breeze 10 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (65%).
Now. Manasota Public Beach is 78° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 78° by 7 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 80° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (76%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
91%Humidity
89%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
78feels78
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8577
19%
14mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8177
76%
27mph
Sun
Oct 18
7869
11%
28mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7969
26mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8168
23mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8168
21mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8068
20mph
UV 8
78°
85°77°
81°77°
78°69°
79°69°
81°68°
81°68°
80°68°
As of 2:00 AM in Manasota Public Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Manasota Public Beach
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 24 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Manasota Public Beach
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at Manasota Public Beach, the next 43 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 10 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WSW 250°
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 2:17 AM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | Low |
| Weather | Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms | Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | - | In the upper 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the mid 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds 5 to 10 mph | East winds around 10 mph | East winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon |
| Tides | Saint PetersburgLow, 12:07 PMVenice InletLow, 10:29 AM | Saint PetersburgHigh, 4:23 AMVenice InletHigh, 2:21 AM | Saint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM |
Beach
- County
- Sarasota County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 27.0125° N
- Longitude
- 82.4144° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Manasota Public Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
measured daily2 instruments
Venice 5.4 SSEFL-SS-99
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VeniceVNCF1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/33 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 Manasota Public Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Venicecity, 6 mi
- Manasota Keycommunity, 7 mi
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- Ospreycommunity, 13 mi