Ideal Beach, New Jersey

Beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey

69° 77°/56°

Overcast· Feels like 69°·Light breeze 8 mph SW

Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (68%).

Now. Ideal Beach is 69° and overcast at 12 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 22 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (31%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 PM. 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

3UV Low

19Air quality

93%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

12:00 PM

69feels69

Today

Oct 16

7756

84%

13mph

Sat

Oct 17

5447

31%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

5638

Mon

Oct 19

5943

16%

15mph

Tue

Oct 20

6447

14%

15mph

Wed

Oct 21

6350

13%

16mph

Thu

Oct 22

6149

20%

16mph

69°

77°56°

54°47°

56°38°

59°43°

64°47°

63°50°

61°49°

As of 12:00 PM in Ideal Beach, New Jersey.

Air quality

The air at Ideal Beach

Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Monmouth County (NJ), 9 miles off.

19Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)-10.8 mi
Ozone19Good18 ppb10.8 mi
Nitrogen dioxide16Good17 ppb14.8 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb14.8 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm14.8 mi

The days ahead

Highest 51, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.

GoodModerate

27YesterdayOct 15
40TodayOct 16
35SatOct 17
40SunOct 18
51MonOct 19

Smoke, the next 45 hours

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

Precipitation

What has fallen at Ideal Beach

0.08 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.08in
Last 3 days: 0.08in

Visibility

How far you can see at Ideal Beach, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 5 AM.

Looking NNE from the sand at 12:33 PM, daylight, overcast, waves about 2.1 ft every 4 s.

Facing NNE 18°

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44065, 22.0 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance

Wave height: 2.6 ft
Period: 4 s
From: ESE (109°)
Swell: 1.3 ft at 15 s from SE
Wind waves: 2.3 ft at 4 s from ESE
Water: 64 °F
Read: Fri 11:50 AM
Distance: 22.0 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.

Significant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.0 ft; 2.6 ft at Fri 11:50 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.

Every hour, last 24 hours

Time	Wave height	Period	From
Fri 11:50 AM	2.6 ft	4 s	ESE (109°)
Fri 10:50 AM	2.3 ft	5 s	ESE (106°)
Fri 9:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	ESE (108°)
Fri 8:50 AM	2.6 ft	4 s	ESE (102°)
Fri 7:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	ESE (102°)
Fri 6:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	ESE (110°)
Fri 5:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	SE (129°)
Fri 4:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	SE (130°)
Fri 3:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	ESE (120°)
Fri 2:50 AM	2.3 ft	4 s	ESE (120°)
Fri 1:50 AM	2.0 ft	3 s	ESE (115°)
Fri 12:50 AM	2.0 ft	10 s	ESE (120°)
Thu 11:50 PM	2.0 ft	3 s	SE (125°)
Thu 10:50 PM	2.0 ft	3 s	ESE (114°)
Thu 9:50 PM	2.0 ft	10 s	ESE (121°)
Thu 8:50 PM	2.0 ft	10 s	ESE (109°)
Thu 7:50 PM	1.6 ft	10 s	ESE (109°)
Thu 6:50 PM	1.6 ft	11 s	ESE (112°)
Thu 5:50 PM	1.6 ft	9 s	ESE (119°)
Thu 4:50 PM	1.6 ft	11 s	SE (127°)
Thu 3:50 PM	1.6 ft	4 s	E (79°)
Thu 2:50 PM	2.0 ft	14 s	ESE (122°)
Thu 1:50 PM	2.0 ft	4 s	ENE (74°)
Thu 12:50 PM	2.3 ft	15 s	ENE (71°)

Beach

County: Monmouth County
State: New Jersey
Latitude: 40.4434° N
Longitude: 74.1065° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Ideal Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station CW1367CW1367

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

AT KeansburgKSBN4

At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

LindenLDJ

At an airfield/14.0 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Middletown Twp 3.6 NWNJ-MN-11

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

FreeholdFRHN4

At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/177 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

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