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Buffington Harbor Beach, Indiana

Beach in Lake County, Indiana

Air quality

The air at Buffington Harbor Beach

Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Hammond-Gary (IN), 6 miles off.

36Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)36Good4.6 mi
  • Ozone12Good11 ppb3.3 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)30Good6.9 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide4Good4 ppb6.9 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0.5 ppb3.3 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Buffington Harbor Beach

0.46 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.46in
Last 3 days
0.58in

Visibility

How far you can see at Buffington Harbor Beach, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 12 PM.

FriSat
Buffington Harbor Beach from its sand, nowLooking NE from the sand at 9:41 PM, night, overcast, waves about 1.0 ft every 5 s.203040NE50Facing NE 34°Wind 11 mphfrom SW, offshore
Looking NE from the sand at 9:41 PM, night, overcast, waves about 1.0 ft every 5 s.
NESW

Facing NE 34°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

County
Lake County
State
Indiana
Latitude
41.6433° N
Longitude
87.4256° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Buffington Harbor Beach, 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 now4 instruments

Gary RegionalGYY

At an airfield/2.0 mi away/591 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station GW1972GW1972

In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/632 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Whiting 0.8 SSWIN-LK-87

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/586 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Crown Point 1NCRPI3

At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/699 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

Elsewhere in Indiana

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