Citizen station GW1686GW1686
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (65%).
Now. Pasa A Grille Beach is 78° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 75°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 7 AM, with some cloud. 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. Rain is likely tomorrow (72%). 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 day is 11 hours 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Pasa A Grille Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, St. Petersburg (FL), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing W 273°
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.
The surf zone forecast for Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota.
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 |
The 5 instruments nearest Pasa A Grille Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW1686GW1686
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
St. Petersburg, Tampa BayNDBC-SAPF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gulfport 0.6 SSEFL-PN-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
St Petersburg 6WNWSZPF1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at St Petersburg 6WNW (SZPF1), 7.8 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.