Citizen station EW5680EW5680
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jones Beach, New York
Beach in Nassau County, New York70°
73°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 70°·Moderate breeze 14 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 73° today.
Now. Jones Beach is 70° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the south-southwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%). The windiest day is Monday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Moderate
26Air quality
93%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
2:00 PM
70feels70
12%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
7355
90%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5346
42%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5539
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
5844
15%
20mph
Tue
Oct 20
6348
12%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
6351
11%
19mph
Thu
Oct 22
6150
24%
18mph
70°
73°55°
53°46°
55°39°
58°44°
63°48°
63°51°
61°50°
As of 2:00 PM in Jones Beach, New York.
Air quality
The air at Jones Beach
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 14 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good19.6 mi
- Ozone26Good23 ppb11.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- 26TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Jones Beach
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
Visibility
How far you can see at Jones Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 130°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44065, 18.8 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance
- Wave height
- 2.6 ft
- Period
- 5 s
- From
- ESE (122°)
- Swell
- 1.3 ft at 13 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.3 ft at 5 s from ESE
- Water
- 65 °F
- Read
- Fri 1:20 PM
- Distance
- 18.8 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.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 1:20 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ESE (122°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ESE (117°) |
| 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°) |
Beach
- County
- Nassau County
- State
- New York
- Latitude
- 40.5945° N
- Longitude
- 73.5029° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Jones Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Reynolds Channel AT Reynolds ChannelREYN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/82 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SchodackNY003
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/328 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bellmore 0.9 SSENY-NS-70
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyossetSYON6
At a cooperative observer's station/15.7 mi away/251 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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Near Jones Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Point Lookoutcommunity, 4 mi
- Gilgocommunity, 5 mi
- Bellmorecommunity, 5 mi
- Merrickcommunity, 5 mi
- Seafordcommunity, 5 mi
- Massapequacommunity, 5 mi
- Wantaghcommunity, 6 mi
- Freeportvillage, 6 mi
- East Massapequacommunity, 6 mi
- Lido Beachcommunity, 6 mi
- North Bellmorecommunity, 7 mi
- Massapequa Parkvillage, 7 mi
Beaches near Jones Beach
- Short Beach3 mi
- Tobay Beach3 mi
- Alhambra Beach5 mi
- Gilgo Beach5 mi
- Nickerson Beach Park6 mi
- Lido Beach6 mi
- Amityville Beach7 mi
- Copiague Beach7 mi