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Picnic Island Beach, Florida

Beach in Hillsborough County, Florida

Air quality

The air at Picnic Island Beach

Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, St. Petersburg (FL), 11 miles off.

37Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
  • Ozone37Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 45, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Picnic Island Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Picnic Island Beach, the next 46 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 7 AM.

FriSat
Picnic Island Beach from its sand, nowLooking W from the sand at 11:42 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 0.8 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, low (green), not a flag raised on the beach.250260W280Facing W 263°Wind 8 mphfrom E, offshore
Looking W from the sand at 11:42 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 0.8 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, low (green), not a flag raised on the beach.
NESW

Facing W 263°

300 ft

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.

ForecastTodayTonightFriday
Rip current riskLowLowLow
Surf height1 foot or less1 foot or less1 foot or less
Water temperatureIn the lower 80s--
UV indexHigh--
Thunderstorm potentialLowLowLow
WeatherSunny. Isolated showers and thunderstormsPartly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstormsMostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms
High temperatureIn the upper 80s-In the upper 80s
Low temperature-In the mid 70s-
WindsEast winds 5 to 10 mphEast winds around 10 mphEast winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon
TidesSaint PetersburgLow, 12:07 PMVenice InletLow, 10:29 AMSaint PetersburgHigh, 4:23 AMVenice InletHigh, 2:21 AMSaint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM

Beach

County
Hillsborough County
State
Florida
Latitude
27.8575° N
Longitude
82.5516° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Picnic Island Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Old Port TampaNDBC-OPTF1

At a river or reservoir gauge/0.1 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Macdill AFB/TampaMCF

At an airfield/2.0 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station EW4549EW4549

In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

MacDill AFB 0.0 NNEFL-HB-131

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

St Petersburg 6WNWSZPF1

At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at St Petersburg 6WNW (SZPF1), 11.8 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 23:59. measured daily

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