Shell BeachNDBC-SHBL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Hell Pass Coast until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hell Pass Coast is 71° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 67° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:53 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 29 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Hell Pass Coast, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi Gulf Coast (MS), 33 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 67, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NE 45°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 4 instruments nearest Hell Pass Coast, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 22.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Shell BeachNDBC-SHBL1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6348GW6348
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.1 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Slidell 4.4 ELA-ST-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.6 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SlidellSISL1
At a cooperative observer's station/36.0 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.