At an airfield/15.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Money Beach until 7 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 86° today.
Now. Money Beach is 69° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 62° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Money Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Bay and Gulf Counties (FL), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing S 184°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
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 Gulf.
Coastal Gulf, including Saint Joe Beach. Issued 3:24 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | W Facing Beaches ModerateS Facing Beaches ModerateState Park Beaches Moderate | W Facing Beaches HighS Facing Beaches HighState Park Beaches High |
| Surf height | W Facing Beaches 1 foot or lessS Facing Beaches 1 foot or lessState Park Beaches 1 foot or less | W Facing Beaches Around 3 feetS Facing Beaches Around 2 feetState Park Beaches Around 3 feet |
| Water temperature | 81 °F | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Weather | Mostly sunny | Mostly sunny |
| High temperature | In the mid 80s | In the lower 70s |
| Winds | Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon | Windy. North winds around 30 mph |
| Sunrise | 7:43 AM | 7:44 AM |
| Sunset | 7:10 PM | 7:09 PM |
| Tides | ApalachicolaHigh, 6:01 AMLow, 2:40 PM | ApalachicolaHigh, 6:39 AMLow, 3:46 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest Money Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ApalachicolaNDBC-APCF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CS1344CS1344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.8 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Port St. Joe 8.7 SSEFL-GF-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/25.4 mi away/-26 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.