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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandy's Beach, Florida
Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida82°
90°/79°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 89°·Light breeze 5 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 72% around 3 PM.
Now. Sandy's Beach is 82° and mostly clear at 8 AM. With the humidity it feels like 89°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 78° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Sunday, near 83°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (86%) and Sunday (72%). Rain is possible Monday (30%) and Tuesday (30%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:19 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
86%Humidity
22%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
82feels89
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
9079
28%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8877
86%
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8374
72%
21mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8473
30%
16mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8573
30%
15mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8572
19%
14mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8470
24%
12mph
UV 8
82°
90°79°
88°77°
83°74°
84°73°
85°73°
85°72°
84°70°
As of 8:00 AM in Sandy's Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Sandy's Beach
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 11 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-20.5 mi
- Ozone16Good6 ppb20.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-20.5 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.2 ppb21.2 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.2 ppb20.5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-1.1 ppm24.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
GoodModerate
- 29YesterdayOct 15
- 35TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 35SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy's Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. 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 Sandy's Beach, the next 43 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 94°
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 Miami-Dade.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 1 to 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 80s
- UV index
- Very High
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Miami-Dade, including Miami. Issued 3:21 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | High |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 1 foot or less |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - |
| UV index | Very High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Moderate |
| Waterspout risk | None | - |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms | Mostly sunny until 4 PM, then mostly cloudy. Showers and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the upper 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 105 | Up to 100 |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:20 AM | 7:20 AM |
| Sunset | 6:53 PM | 6:52 PM |
| Tides | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 6:27 AMHigh, 1:09 PM | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 7:18 AMHigh, 2:00 PM |
Beach
- County
- Miami-Dade County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 25.7753° N
- Longitude
- 80.1298° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sandy's Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW0888EW0888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/11.7 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Everglades ARSS2051
At a soil climate station/32.4 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Miami BeachMIBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Miami Beach 2.7 SFL-MD-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/2 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Florida
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Near Sandy's Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fisher Islandcommunity, 1 mi
- Miami Beachcity, 2 mi
- Miamicity, 4 mi
- North Bay Villagecity, 5 mi
- Key Biscaynevillage, 6 mi
- El Portalvillage, 7 mi
- Indian Creekvillage, 7 mi
- Surfsidetown, 7 mi
- Miami Shoresvillage, 7 mi
- Brownsvillecommunity, 8 mi
- Gladeviewcommunity, 8 mi
- Bay Harbor Islandstown, 8 mi
Beaches near Sandy's Beach
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas Ocean Beach Parkunder 1 mi
- South Pointe Beachunder 1 mi
- Miami Beachunder 1 mi
- Historic Virginia Key Beach Park3 mi
- Indian Beach Park3 mi
- Virginia Beach3 mi
- Hobie Island Beach Park4 mi
- Hobie Island Beach5 mi