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Sunset Beach, Florida

Beach in Pinellas County, Florida

Air quality

The air at Sunset Beach

Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, St. Petersburg (FL), 16 miles off.

38Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
  • Ozone38Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 45, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sunset Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Sunset Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.

FriSat
Sunset Beach from its sand, nowLooking WNW from the sand at 10:39 PM, 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.280290300310Facing WNW 293°Wind 4 mphfrom ENE, offshore
Looking WNW from the sand at 10:39 PM, 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 WNW 293°

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 Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota.

Today

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

Surf zone forecast

Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota, including Clearwater Beach, Saint Pete Beach, Bradenton Beach, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Turtle Beach, and Venice. 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 lower 80s--
UV indexHigh--
Thunderstorm potentialLowLowLow
WeatherSunny. Isolated showers and thunderstormsPartly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstormsMostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms
High temperatureIn the upper 80s-In the upper 80s
Low temperature-In the mid 70s-
WindsEast winds 5 to 10 mphEast winds around 10 mphEast winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon
TidesSaint PetersburgLow, 12:07 PMVenice InletLow, 10:29 AMSaint PetersburgHigh, 4:23 AMVenice InletHigh, 2:21 AMSaint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM

Beach

County
Pinellas County
State
Florida
Latitude
28.1467° N
Longitude
82.7868° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Sunset Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station FW8571FW8571

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/39 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Clearwater Air ParkCLW

At an airfield/12.1 mi away/76 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Tarpon Springs 1.8 EFL-PN-124

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Sewage PlantTRPF1

At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Sewage Plant (TRPF1), 2.3 miles from here, read 9 Oct, 23:59. measured daily

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