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San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve, Florida

Beach in Lee County, Florida

Air quality

The air at San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve

Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Fort Myers (FL), 18 miles off.

19Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good10.2 mi
  • Ozone19Good20 ppb4.7 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)7Good10.2 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.

Smoke, the next 44 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 San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve

0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.04in
Last 3 days
0.04in

Visibility

How far you can see at San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve, the next 44 hours

Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Sat 12 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.

FriSat
San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve from its sand, nowLooking SSW from the sand at 1:54 AM, 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.AchernarS190200210Facing SSW 198°Wind 4 mphfrom ENE, offshore
Looking SSW from the sand at 1:54 AM, 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 SSW 198°

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 Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee.

Today

Rip current risk
Low
Surf height
1 foot or less
Water temperature
In the mid 80s
UV index
High

Surf zone forecast

Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee, including Manasota Key, Palm Island, Captiva, Sanibel, and Fort Myers Beach. 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 mid 80s--
UV indexHigh--
Thunderstorm potentialLowLowLow
WeatherMostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstormsMostly cloudy until 8 PM, then partly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstormsMostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms
High temperatureIn the upper 80s-In the upper 80s
Low temperature-In the upper 70s-
WindsEast winds 5 to 10 mphEast winds around 10 mphEast winds around 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon
TidesVenice InletLow, 10:29 AMFort Myers BeachLow, 10:33 AMVenice InletHigh, 2:21 AMFort Myers BeachHigh, 3:13 AMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AMFort Myers BeachLow, 11:32 AM

Beach

County
Lee County
State
Florida
Latitude
26.4791° N
Longitude
81.9710° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest San Carlos Bay - Bunche Beach Preserve, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station CW5277CW5277

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Fort Myers/Page FldFMY

At an airfield/10.0 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Fort MyersNDBC-FMRF1

At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Iona 0.5 NNEFL-LE-16

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

NaplesNPLF1

At a cooperative observer's station/26.6 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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