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Bare Sand Beach, North Carolina

Beach in Carteret County, North Carolina

Air quality

The air at Bare Sand Beach

Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Carteret County (NC), 14 miles off.

27Good
  • Ozone27Good-

The days ahead

Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Bare Sand Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Bare Sand Beach, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 10 AM.

FriSat
Bare Sand Beach from its sand, nowLooking SE from the sand at 12:23 AM, night, clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, moderate (yellow), not a flag raised on the beach.110120130SE140Facing SE 128°Rip current risk: moderateRips run out through the surf
Looking SE from the sand at 12:23 AM, night, clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, moderate (yellow), not a flag raised on the beach.
NESW

Facing SE 128°

300 ft

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 East Carteret.

Friday

Rip current risk
Core Banks ModerateShackleford Banks Moderate
Surf height
Core Banks 1 to 3 feetShackleford Banks Around 1 foot building to 2 to 3 feet
Water temperature
In the lower 70s
UV index
High

Surf zone forecast

East Carteret, including Cape Lookout National Seashore and Shackleford Banks. Issued 8:25 PM EDT Thu Oct 15.

ForecastFridaySaturday
Rip current riskCore Banks ModerateShackleford Banks ModerateCore Banks LowShackleford Banks High
Surf heightCore Banks 1 to 3 feetShackleford Banks Around 1 foot building to 2 to 3 feetCore Banks 4 to 6 feetShackleford Banks 3 to 5 feet
Water temperatureIn the lower 70s-
UV indexHigh-
Thunderstorm potentialNoneNone
WeatherMostly sunnyPartly sunny until 8 AM, then mostly cloudy. Showers
High temperatureAround 80In the upper 60s
WindsSouthwest winds around 10 mph, increasing to around 20 mph in the afternoonWindy. North winds 25 to 30 mph
TidesCape LookoutHigh 3.9 ft, 11:28 AMCape LookoutHigh 3.7 ft, 12:23 PM

Beach

County
Carteret County
State
North Carolina
Latitude
34.6757° N
Longitude
76.4844° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Bare Sand Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Cape LookoutNDBC-CLKN7

At a fire lookout or ranger station/5.1 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station GW0457GW0457

In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Harkers Island 0.2 SENC-CR-5

In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Atlantic BeachATBN7

At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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