Citizen station FW8529FW8529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 78° after 90° today.
Now. Rogers Park Beach is 75° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 73° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Tuesday, near 80°, and the coolest Sunday, near 76°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:22 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Rogers Park Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Holiday (FL), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, 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 Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing WNW 293°
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 Coastal Levy-Coastal Citrus-Coastal Hernando-Coastal Pasco.
Coastal Levy-Coastal Citrus-Coastal Hernando-Coastal Pasco, including Cedar Key, Yankeetown, Crystal River, Homosassa, Pine Island, Bayport, Hernando Beach, Hudson, and Port Richey. 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 | Around 80 | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None | None |
| Weather | Sunny | Mostly clear | Mostly sunny until 5 PM, then mostly cloudy |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | - | In the lower 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the mid 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon | North winds around 5 mph, becoming east after midnight | East winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon |
| Tides | Cedar KeyLow, 11:31 AMSaint PetersburgLow, 12:07 PM | Cedar KeyHigh, 6:06 PMLow, 11:13 PMHigh, 4:50 AMSaint PetersburgHigh, 4:23 AM | Cedar KeyLow, 12:10 PMSaint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest Rogers Park 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
Citizen station FW8529FW8529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/66 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pithlachascotee River Near Fivay Junction02310280
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bayport 0.8 SWFL-HN-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/17.8 mi away/108 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.