Citizen station GW4304GW4304
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Venice Beach, Florida
Beach in Sarasota County, Florida78°
79°/77°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 78°·Light air 3 mph NNW
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 5 PM (50%).
Now. Venice Beach is 78° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the north-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 73° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 69° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. Highs stay close to 80° all week. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 27 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:21 AM after midnight. 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 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
94%Humidity
59%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
78feels78
48%
Today
Oct 17
7977
89%
26mph
Sun
Oct 18
7968
17%
27mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8170
26mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8068
23mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8067
18mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
7967
18mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 23
7966
15mph
UV 8
78°
79°77°
79°68°
81°70°
80°68°
80°67°
79°67°
79°66°
As of 7:00 AM in Venice Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Venice Beach
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 26 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
- Ozone12Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Venice Beach
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.37in
- Last 3 days
- 0.42in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 88%
Visibility
How far you can see at Venice Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Mon 2 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WSW 237°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
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
- Moderate
- Surf height
- 1 to 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the lower 80s
- UV index
- Low
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 2:21 AM EDT Sat Oct 17.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | High | Moderate |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet | 1 to 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - | - |
| UV index | Low | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | None | None |
| Weather | Mostly cloudy. Numerous showers with isolated thunderstorms | Mostly cloudy until 11 PM, then partly cloudy | Mostly sunny |
| High temperature | Around 80 | - | Around 80 |
| Low temperature | - | In the mid 60s | - |
| Winds | North winds 10 to 15 mph | Breezy. Northeast winds 20 to 25 mph | Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph |
| Tides | Saint PetersburgLow, 2:14 PMVenice InletLow, 12:36 PM | Venice InletHigh, 4:19 AM | Saint PetersburgHigh, 6:21 AMLow, 3:26 PMVenice InletLow, 1:48 PM |
Beach
- County
- Sarasota County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 26.9746° N
- Longitude
- 82.3934° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Venice Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
measured daily2 instruments
Englewood 2.6 NFL-SS-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VeniceVNCF1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/33 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
Elsewhere in Florida
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Venice Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Englewoodcommunity, 2 mi
- Manasota Keycommunity, 4 mi
- South Venicecommunity, 5 mi
- Grove Citycommunity, 6 mi
- Plantationcommunity, 6 mi
- Venice Gardenscommunity, 7 mi
- Rotondacommunity, 9 mi
- Warm Mineral Springscommunity, 9 mi
- Venicecity, 9 mi
- Nokomiscommunity, 11 mi
- Laurelcommunity, 12 mi
- North Portcity, 13 mi
Beaches near Venice Beach
- Middle Pass Beachunder 1 mi
- Manasota Public Beach3 mi
- Englewood Beach4 mi
- South Venice Beach5 mi
- Stump Pass Beach State Park5 mi
- Caspersen Beach6 mi
- Golden Beach Entrance9 mi
- Nokomis Public Beach11 mi