Coral Creek54A
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (60%).
Now. Stump Pass Beach State Park is 78° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 77° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 81° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (74%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 27 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 32 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Stump Pass Beach State Park, Florida.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.13 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.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NNE 33°
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 Charlotte-Coastal Lee.
Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee, including Manasota Key, Palm Island, Captiva, Sanibel, and Fort Myers Beach. 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 | In the mid 80s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | Low |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Mostly cloudy until 8 PM, then partly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | - | In the upper 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the upper 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds 5 to 10 mph | East winds around 10 mph | East winds around 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon |
| Tides | Venice InletLow, 10:29 AMFort Myers BeachLow, 10:33 AM | Venice InletHigh, 2:21 AMFort Myers BeachHigh, 3:13 AM | Venice InletLow, 11:28 AMFort Myers BeachLow, 11:32 AM |
The 5 instruments nearest Stump Pass Beach State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Coral Creek54A
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4304GW4304
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.3 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big Slough At WCS-101 At North Port02299484
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/-16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Englewood 2.4 SEFL-CH-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
North PortNWFF1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
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.