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Crab Meadow Beach, New York

Beach in Suffolk County, New York

Air quality

The air at Crab Meadow Beach

Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Bridgeport (CT), 19 miles off.

30Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)30Good15.4 mi
  • Ozone-21 ppb14.2 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)14Good17.9 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide3Good3 ppb13.1 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb17.9 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.

FriSatSun

Precipitation

What has fallen at Crab Meadow Beach

0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.12in
Last 3 days
0.15in

Visibility

How far you can see at Crab Meadow Beach, the next 46 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 8 PM.

FriSatSun
Crab Meadow Beach from its sand, nowLooking ENE from the sand at 11:41 AM, daylight, light rain, waves about 1.8 ft every 5 s.607080EFacing ENE 71°Sun 91° rightWind 10 mphfrom SSW, offshoreSwell 1.8 ft from ESELongshore current, to the left
Looking ENE from the sand at 11:41 AM, daylight, light rain, waves about 1.8 ft every 5 s.
NESW

Facing ENE 71°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44065, 43.5 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance

Wave height
2.3 ft
Period
5 s
From
ESE (106°)
Swell
1.6 ft at 9 s from SE
Wind waves
2.0 ft at 5 s from ESE
Water
64 °F
Read
Fri 10:50 AM
Distance
43.5 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 3.0 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 10:50 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ft6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PMFri6 AM2.3 ftWave height at buoy 44065, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.0 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 10:50 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ftThuNoonFri2.3 ft
Significant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.0 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 10:50 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 10:50 AM2.3 ft5 sESE (106°)
Fri 9:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (108°)
Fri 8:50 AM2.6 ft4 sESE (102°)
Fri 7:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (102°)
Fri 6:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (110°)
Fri 5:50 AM2.3 ft4 sSE (129°)
Fri 4:50 AM2.3 ft4 sSE (130°)
Fri 3:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (120°)
Fri 2:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (120°)
Fri 1:50 AM2.0 ft3 sESE (115°)
Fri 12:50 AM2.0 ft10 sESE (120°)
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°)

Beach

County
Suffolk County
State
New York
Latitude
40.9289° N
Longitude
73.3239° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Crab Meadow Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station DW1086DW1086

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/27 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Albany Toll PlazaNY002

Beside a road/8.7 mi away/279 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Farmingdale/RepublcFRG

At an airfield/14.6 mi away/82 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Northport 1.6 NNENY-SF-16

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/84 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Vanderbilt MuseumCTPN6

At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/167 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Vanderbilt Museum (CTPN6), 4.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily

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