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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Nanny Goat Beach, Georgia
Beach in McIntosh County, GeorgiaRip Current Statement, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking waves of 4 to 6 feet expected in the surf zone. For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Georgia Beaches. * WHEN...For the High Surf Advisory, from midnight tonight to noon EDT Monday. For the High Rip Current Risk, from Sunday morning through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
56°
69°/52°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNE
Alert. A Rip Current Statement is in force for Nanny Goat Beach until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Nanny Goat Beach is 56° and mostly clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 1:02 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
25Air quality
63%Humidity
19%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
56feels56
16mph
Today
Oct 18
6952
16mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7153
12mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7552
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7655
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7652
UV 6
Fri
Oct 23
7554
UV 6
Sat
Oct 24
7456
14mph
56°
69°52°
71°53°
75°52°
76°55°
76°52°
75°54°
74°56°
As of 9:00 AM in Nanny Goat Beach, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at Nanny Goat Beach
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Brunswick (GA), 24 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone25Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Nanny Goat Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 8 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 Nanny Goat Beach, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing W 280°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: high
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 Bryan-Coastal Chatham-Coastal Liberty-Coastal McIntosh, and the waves at buoy 41008, 22.1 mi away.
- In force High surf advisory in effect until noon EDT Monday
- In force High risk for rip currents through this evening
Today
- Rip current risk
- High
- Surf height
- 3 to 4 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 70s
- UV index
- Moderate
Waves at buoy 41008, Grays Reef
- Wave height
- 7.2 ft
- Period
- 7 s
- From
- NE (51°)
- Swell
- 0.0 ft
- Wind waves
- 7.2 ft at 7 s from NE
- Water
- -
- Read
- Sun 8:50 AM
- Distance
- 22.1 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 8:50 AM | 7.2 ft | 7 s | NE (51°) |
| Sun 7:50 AM | 7.9 ft | 7 s | NE (49°) |
| Sun 6:50 AM | 7.9 ft | 7 s | NE (56°) |
| Sun 5:50 AM | 8.2 ft | 7 s | ENE (57°) |
| Sun 4:50 AM | 9.2 ft | 8 s | NE (55°) |
| Sun 3:50 AM | 9.2 ft | 7 s | NE (47°) |
| Sun 2:50 AM | 9.2 ft | 6 s | NE (51°) |
| Sun 1:50 AM | 8.2 ft | - | ENE (60°) |
| Sun 12:50 AM | 8.5 ft | 8 s | NE (54°) |
| Sat 11:50 PM | 7.5 ft | 7 s | NE (51°) |
| Sat 10:50 PM | 6.9 ft | 7 s | NE (50°) |
| Sat 9:50 PM | 7.2 ft | 7 s | NE (48°) |
| Sat 8:50 PM | 6.6 ft | - | NE (46°) |
| Sat 7:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 6 s | NE (38°) |
| Sat 6:50 PM | 6.6 ft | 6 s | NE (34°) |
| Sat 5:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (23°) |
| Sat 4:50 PM | 5.9 ft | - | NNE (16°) |
| Sat 3:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (15°) |
| Sat 2:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 5 s | N (352°) |
| Sat 1:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | NNW (342°) |
| Sat 12:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | NNW (342°) |
| Sat 11:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | NNW (338°) |
| Sat 10:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | NNW (342°) |
| Sat 9:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | NNW (332°) |
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Bryan-Coastal Chatham-Coastal Liberty-Coastal McIntosh, including Tybee Island, Ossabaw Island, Wassaw Island, St. Catherines Island, and Sapelo Island. Issued 5:13 AM EDT Sun Oct 18.
| Forecast | Today | Monday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | High | High |
| Surf height | 3 to 4 feet | 3 to 4 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 70s | - |
| UV index | Moderate | - |
| Weather | Sunny | Sunny |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | In the lower 70s |
| Winds | Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph | North winds 15 to 20 mph |
| Tides | Tybee IslandLow, 7:52 AMHigh, 2:18 PM | Tybee IslandLow, 8:50 AMHigh, 3:10 PM |
- Tuesday
- Surf height 3 to 4 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 15 mph
- Wednesday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Thursday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
Beach
- County
- McIntosh County
- State
- Georgia
- Latitude
- 31.4411° N
- Longitude
- 81.2380° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Nanny Goat Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0041CW0041
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US 341 @ SR 38GA355
Beside a road/39.7 mi away/102 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Sapelo Island 2.3 NWGA-MI-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sapelo IslandSPIG1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 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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