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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
South Pointe Beach, Florida
Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida88°
90°/79°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 100°·Gentle breeze 8 mph ESE
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow afternoon, from about 3 PM (89%).
Now. South Pointe Beach is 88° and partly cloudy at 12 PM. With the humidity it feels like 100°. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 82° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 78° by 3 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 82°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (90%) and Sunday (73%). 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.
7UV High
21Air quality
68%Humidity
38%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
88feels100
UV 7
Today
Oct 16
9079
28%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8877
90%
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8274
73%
21mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8472
18%
16mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8471
18%
14mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8470
17%
13mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8470
22%
UV 8
88°
90°79°
88°77°
82°74°
84°72°
84°71°
84°70°
84°70°
As of 12:00 PM in South Pointe Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at South Pointe Beach
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 11 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-21.2 mi
- Ozone21Good20 ppb21.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-21.2 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.8 ppb21.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb21.2 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm21.2 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 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Pointe Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 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 South Pointe Beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 100°
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
- 25.7674° N
- Longitude
- 80.1310° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest South Pointe Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW0888EW0888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 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/32.0 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Miami Beach 2.7 SFL-MD-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/2 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Miami BeachMIBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near South Pointe Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Gladeviewcommunity, 8 mi
- Bay Harbor Islandstown, 8 mi
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