At an airfield/8.3 mi away/157 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site, Oregon
Beach in Lincoln County, Oregon61°
67°/51°
Fog·
Feels like 61°·Light breeze 5 mph NW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 67° today.
Now. Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site is 61° and fog at 4 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 52° by 1 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 59°, and the coolest Monday, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:18 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
29Air quality
100%Humidity
93%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
61feels61
now, fog
Today
Oct 16
6751
partly cloudy day
Sat
Oct 17
5951
45%
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
5842
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
5544
25%
Tue
Oct 20
5842
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
5942
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5643
26%
61°
67°51°
59°51°
58°42°
55°44°
58°42°
59°42°
56°43°
As of 4:00 PM in Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site, Oregon.
Air quality
The air at Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Toledo (OR), 13 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 11 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site, the next 44 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 9 PM, under a mile for 10 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing W 270°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Lincoln City Oregon, and the waves at buoy 46050, 27.1 mi away.
Today
- Surf height
- 6 to 9 ft
Waves at buoy 46050, Stonewall Bank
- Wave height
- 6.2 ft
- Period
- 14 s
- From
- W (259°)
- Swell
- 5.9 ft at 14 s from W
- Wind waves
- 1.6 ft at 5 s from W
- Water
- -
- Read
- Fri 3:50 PM
- Distance
- 27.1 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 3:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 14 s | W (259°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 5.9 ft | 14 s | WNW (282°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 5.9 ft | 14 s | W (281°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 10 s | W (260°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 5.9 ft | 15 s | WSW (251°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | WSW (258°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 15 s | WNW (288°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 4.3 ft | - | W (266°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 15 s | W (268°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 15 s | WSW (247°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 15 s | SW (227°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 16 s | WSW (249°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 11 s | W (269°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 8 s | W (276°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 16 s | WSW (237°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 8 s | W (275°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 3.9 ft | 15 s | SW (218°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 3.6 ft | 14 s | SW (226°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 3.9 ft | 9 s | W (276°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 3.6 ft | 8 s | WNW (287°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 3.9 ft | 15 s | SW (229°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 10 s | WNW (288°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 10 s | WNW (287°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 3.9 ft | 13 s | W (262°) |
Surf zone forecast
Lincoln City Oregon. Issued 6:02 AM PDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Surf height | 6 to 9 ft | 6 to 9 ft |
| Offshore swell | West 5 ft at 14 seconds | West 6 ft at 11 seconds |
| Thunderstorm potential | None expected | None expected |
| Weather | Mostly cloudy with patchy fog | Mostly cloudy |
| High temperature | Around 65 | 55 to 60 |
| Wind | NW at 2 mph | SW at 3 mph becoming SW at 10 mph |
| Sunrise/sunset times | Sunrise - 7:34 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:29 PM PDT | Sunrise - 7:35 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:27 PM PDT |
| Tides |
Beach
- County
- Lincoln County
- State
- Oregon
- Latitude
- 44.4618° N
- Longitude
- 124.0770° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
WWS US101 NB at Yaquina Bay Brid OR US ODOTODT38
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/144 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cannibal MtnCNFO3
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/1,024 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Corvallis 10 SSW04236
At a climate reference station/37.5 mi away/312 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Seal Rock 1.8 SOR-LC-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/97 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewportNPTO3
At a cooperative observer's station/11.4 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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