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Highlands Beach, New Jersey

Beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey

Air quality

The air at Highlands Beach

Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Monmouth County (NJ), 13 miles off.

28Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)-17.5 mi
  • Ozone28Good31 ppb7.9 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide6Good6 ppb20.8 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb20.8 mi
  • Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm21.1 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.

Smoke, the next 44 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 Highlands Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Highlands Beach, the next 44 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 8 PM.

FriSat
Highlands Beach from its sand, nowLooking ENE from the sand at 1:11 AM, night, mostly cloudy, waves about 1.6 ft every 3 s.Mars40NE50607080Facing ENE 60°Wind 8 mphfrom SE, along the beachSwell 1.6 ft from ESELongshore current, to the left
Looking ENE from the sand at 1:11 AM, night, mostly cloudy, waves about 1.6 ft every 3 s.
NESW

Facing ENE 60°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44065, 14.6 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance

Wave height
2.0 ft
Period
3 s
From
ESE (108°)
Swell
1.0 ft at 14 s from ESE
Wind waves
1.6 ft at 3 s from ESE
Water
64 °F
Read
Fri 12:20 AM
Distance
14.6 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.

Wave height at buoy 44065, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.0 ft at Fri 12:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM2.0 ftWave height at buoy 44065, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.0 ft at Fri 12:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ftNoonThuNoon2.0 ft
Significant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.0 ft at Fri 12:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 12:20 AM2.0 ft3 sESE (108°)
Thu 11:50 PM2.0 ft3 sSE (125°)
Thu 10:50 PM2.0 ft3 sESE (114°)
Thu 9:50 PM2.0 ft10 sESE (121°)
Thu 8:50 PM2.0 ft10 sESE (109°)
Thu 7:50 PM1.6 ft10 sESE (109°)
Thu 6:50 PM1.6 ft11 sESE (112°)
Thu 5:50 PM1.6 ft9 sESE (119°)
Thu 4:50 PM1.6 ft11 sSE (127°)
Thu 3:50 PM1.6 ft4 sE (79°)
Thu 2:50 PM2.0 ft14 sESE (122°)
Thu 1:50 PM2.0 ft4 sENE (74°)
Thu 12:50 PM2.3 ft15 sENE (71°)
Thu 11:50 AM2.3 ft4 sENE (67°)
Thu 10:50 AM2.6 ft3 sNNE (27°)
Thu 9:50 AM2.6 ft4 sNE (55°)
Thu 8:50 AM2.6 ft4 sNNE (30°)
Thu 7:50 AM2.6 ft3 sNNE (31°)
Thu 6:50 AM2.3 ft3 sNNE (20°)
Thu 5:50 AM2.3 ft3 sN (7°)
Thu 4:50 AM2.6 ft3 sN (8°)
Thu 3:50 AM2.6 ft3 sN (9°)
Thu 2:50 AM2.3 ft6 sS (175°)
Thu 1:50 AM2.6 ft6 sSSE (167°)

Beach

County
Monmouth County
State
New Jersey
Latitude
40.3943° N
Longitude
73.9760° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Highlands 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 now3 instruments

Citizen station GW5613GW5613

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/11 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Belmar-FarmdaleBLM

At an airfield/16.9 mi away/157 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Rumson 1.0 NNWNJ-MN-63

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

OakhurstLBRN4

At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/31 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Oakhurst (LBRN4), 8.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily

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