Sturgeon PointNDBC-PSTN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wide Beach, New York
Beach in Erie County, New YorkSpecial Marine Warning, in full · Every severe alert
For the following areas... Lake Erie from Ripley to Buffalo... At 814 AM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Grand Island to near Lake Erie Beach to 8 nm west of Ripley, moving east at 40 knots. HAZARD...Wind gusts to 40 knots. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves. Locations impacted include... Small Boat Harbor, Van Buren Point, Lake Erie Beach, Barcelona, Woodlawn Beach, Erie Basin Marina, Sturgeon Point, Ripley, Wanakah, Dunkirk, Athol Springs, Bayview, and Sunset Bay.
Move to safe harbor immediately as gusty winds and high waves are expected.
69°
68°/56°
Heavy rain·
Feels like 69°·Moderate breeze 17 mph SW
Alert. A Special Marine Warning is in force for Wide Beach until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 8 AM, the chance peaking at 71% around 9 AM.
Now. Wide Beach is 69° and heavy rain at 8 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the southwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
46Air quality
90%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
69feels69
57%
17mph
Today
Oct 16
6856
93%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
4936
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5935
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6436
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6538
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6439
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6538
mostly clear day
69°
68°56°
49°36°
59°35°
64°36°
65°38°
64°39°
65°38°
As of 8:00 AM in Wide Beach, New York.
Air quality
The air at Wide Beach
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Western New York Region (NY), 6 miles off.
46Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)46Good-
- Ozone20Good21 ppb11.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 30TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wide Beach
0.49 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.49in
- Last 3 days
- 0.49in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wide Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WNW 292°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Erie County
- State
- New York
- Latitude
- 42.5878° N
- Longitude
- 79.1312° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Wide Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/9.7 mi away/666 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7070FW7070
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/634 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Creek 3ESILN6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/609 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Angola 3.5 WSWNY-ER-210
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/591 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Silver Creek 3E (SILN6), 2.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Wide Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sunset Baycommunity, 2 mi
- Farnhamvillage, 2 mi
- Lake Erie Beachcommunity, 4 mi
- Silver Creekvillage, 4 mi
- Angola on the Lakecommunity, 6 mi
- Angolavillage, 6 mi
- Forestvillecommunity, 8 mi
- North Collinsvillage, 10 mi
- Highland-on-the-Lakecommunity, 11 mi
- Perrysburgcommunity, 11 mi
- Dunkirkcity, 12 mi
- Edencommunity, 13 mi
Beaches near Wide Beach
- Millers Beachunder 1 mi
- Hanover Beach Park1 mi
- Hanover Town Beach1 mi
- Point Breeze Beach4 mi
- Evans Beach5 mi
- Bennett Beach6 mi
- Buffalo Municipal Bathing Beach6 mi
- Wendt Beach7 mi