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Sand Beach, Florida

Beach in Franklin County, Florida

Air quality

The air at Sand Beach

Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Liberty County (FL), 33 miles off.

22Good
  • Ozone22Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sand Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Sand Beach, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.

FriSat
Sand Beach from its sand, nowLooking SSW from the sand at 12:20 AM, night, 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.S190200210Facing SSW 194°
Looking SSW from the sand at 12:20 AM, night, 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 194°

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 Franklin.

Rest of today

Rip current risk
Low
Surf height
1 foot or less
Water temperature
78 °F
UV index
High

Surf zone forecast

Coastal Franklin, including Apalachicola. Issued 11:53 AM EDT Thu Oct 15.

ForecastRest of todayFriday
Rip current riskLowModerate
Surf height1 foot or lessAround 1 foot
Water temperature78 °F-
UV indexHigh-
WeatherSunnyMostly sunny
High temperatureIn the lower 80sIn the lower 80s
WindsEast winds around 10 mphNortheast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon
Sunrise7:41 AM7:41 AM
Sunset7:10 PM7:09 PM
TidesApalachicolaLow, 1:52 PMApalachicolaHigh, 6:01 AMLow, 2:40 PM
Saturday
High rip current risk. Surf height around 1 foot. Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Breezy. North winds around 25 mph
Sunday
High rip current risk. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Windy. Northeast winds around 30 mph
Monday
High rip current risk. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph

Beach

County
Franklin County
State
Florida
Latitude
29.7855° N
Longitude
84.8930° W

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Sand Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

East Bay At Tank IslandAPXF1

At a river or reservoir gauge/1.1 mi away/-26 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Apalachicola Muni (ASOS)AAF

At an airfield/9.0 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

East Bay At Tank IslandAPXF1

At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/-26 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Eastpoint 1.7 WSWFL-FR-5

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/18 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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