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Kiwanda Beach, Oregon

Beach in Tillamook County, Oregon

Air quality

The air at Kiwanda Beach

Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Tillamook (OR), 22 miles off.

31Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 13, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

FriSatSun

Precipitation

What has fallen at Kiwanda Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. 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 Kiwanda Beach, the next 45 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 9 PM, under a mile for 4 hours.

FriSatSun
Kiwanda Beach from its sand, nowLooking W from the sand at 9:33 AM, daylight, clear, waves about 6.5 ft every 15 s.260W280290Facing W 278°Sun 153° leftSwell 6.5 ft from WLongshore current, to the right
Looking W from the sand at 9:33 AM, daylight, clear, waves about 6.5 ft every 15 s.
NESW

Facing W 278°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The surf zone forecast for Manzanita, Rockaway Beach and Pacific City Oregon, and the waves at buoy 46050, 42.6 mi away.

Today

Surf height
5 to 8 ft

Waves at buoy 46050, Stonewall Bank

Wave height
4.3 ft
Period
15 s
From
W (266°)
Swell
4.3 ft at 15 s from W
Wind waves
0.7 ft at 4 s from NW
Water
-
Read
Fri 8:40 AM
Distance
42.6 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 46050, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 4.3 ft at Fri 8:40 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PMFri6 AM4.3 ftWave height at buoy 46050, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 4.3 ft at Fri 8:40 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftNoonThuNoonFri4.3 ft
Significant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 4.3 ft at Fri 8:40 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 8:40 AM4.3 ft15 sW (266°)
Fri 7:50 AM4.3 ft15 sW (268°)
Fri 6:50 AM3.9 ft15 sWSW (247°)
Fri 5:50 AM3.6 ft15 sSW (227°)
Fri 4:50 AM3.9 ft16 sWSW (249°)
Fri 3:50 AM3.6 ft11 sW (269°)
Fri 2:50 AM3.6 ft8 sW (276°)
Fri 1:50 AM3.6 ft16 sWSW (237°)
Fri 12:50 AM3.6 ft8 sW (275°)
Thu 11:50 PM3.9 ft15 sSW (218°)
Thu 10:50 PM3.6 ft14 sSW (226°)
Thu 9:50 PM3.9 ft9 sW (276°)
Thu 8:50 PM3.6 ft8 sWNW (287°)
Thu 7:50 PM3.9 ft15 sSW (229°)
Thu 6:50 PM4.3 ft10 sWNW (288°)
Thu 5:50 PM4.3 ft10 sWNW (287°)
Thu 4:50 PM3.9 ft13 sW (262°)
Thu 3:50 PM4.6 ft9 sWNW (292°)
Thu 2:50 PM4.3 ft9 sWNW (297°)
Thu 1:50 PM4.3 ft13 sW (274°)
Thu 12:50 PM4.3 ft14 sWSW (249°)
Thu 11:50 AM4.6 ft8 sW (280°)
Thu 10:50 AM4.6 ft12 sW (274°)
Thu 9:50 AM4.6 ft8 sWNW (286°)

Surf zone forecast

Manzanita, Rockaway Beach and Pacific City Oregon. Issued 6:02 AM PDT Fri Oct 16.

ForecastTodaySaturday
Surf height5 to 8 ft6 to 9 ft
Offshore swellWest 5 ft at 12 secondsWest 6 ft at 12 seconds
Thunderstorm potentialNone expectedNone expected
WeatherMostly cloudyMostly cloudy
High temperature60 to 6555 to 60
WindNW at 1 mphNW at 3 mph becoming NW at 8 mph
Sunrise/sunset timesSunrise - 7:35 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:28 PM PDTSunrise - 7:36 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:26 PM PDT
Tides

Beach

County
Tillamook County
State
Oregon
Latitude
45.1515° N
Longitude
123.9743° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Kiwanda Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Cedar RAWSCDFO3

A remote fire weather station/10.7 mi away/2,182 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

TillamookTMK

At an airfield/20.0 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station GW1195GW1195

In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/32 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

CloverdaleCLVO3

At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Lincoln City 1.0 SSWOR-LC-46

In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.4 mi away/113 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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