Reynolds Channel AT Reynolds ChannelREYN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Nickerson Beach Park, New York
Beach in Nassau County, New York69°
75°/56°
Overcast·
Feels like 69°·Gentle breeze 9 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 75° today.
Now. Nickerson Beach Park is 69° and overcast at 1 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (40%). 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 10:05 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 Low
26Air quality
91%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
69feels69
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
7556
88%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5347
40%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5639
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
5945
14%
20mph
Tue
Oct 20
6348
12%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
6351
12%
19mph
Thu
Oct 22
6150
22%
18mph
69°
75°56°
53°47°
56°39°
59°45°
63°48°
63°51°
61°50°
As of 1:00 PM in Nickerson Beach Park, New York.
Air quality
The air at Nickerson Beach Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 12 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good15 mi
- Ozone26Good23 ppb14.7 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 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Nickerson Beach Park
0.11 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
- 0.11in
- Last 3 days
- 0.11in
Visibility
How far you can see at Nickerson Beach Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 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 NNE 15°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44065, 16.2 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
- 16.2 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
- 40.5917° N
- Longitude
- 73.6099° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Nickerson Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW3861FW3861
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SchodackNY003
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/328 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Oceanside 1.0 ENENY-NS-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyossetSYON6
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 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 Nickerson Beach Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Long Beachcity, 3 mi
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- Oceansidecommunity, 3 mi
- Bay Parkcommunity, 4 mi
- Freeportvillage, 4 mi
- Baldwincommunity, 5 mi
- East Rockawayvillage, 5 mi
- Hewlett Harborvillage, 5 mi
Beaches near Nickerson Beach Park
- Lido Beachunder 1 mi
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- Hicks Beach5 mi
- East Atlantic Beach5 mi
- Jones Beach6 mi
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