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McPhillips Beach, Oregon

Beach in Tillamook County, Oregon

Air quality

The air at McPhillips Beach

Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Tillamook (OR), 16 miles off.

16Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 19, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at McPhillips Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 McPhillips Beach, the next 45 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 20 hours.

FriSat
McPhillips Beach from its sand, nowLooking WNW from the sand at 9:21 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 7.5 ft every 8 s.W280290300Facing WNW 285°Wind 7 mphfrom E, offshoreSwell 7.5 ft from WNW
Looking WNW from the sand at 9:21 PM, night, mostly clear, waves about 7.5 ft every 8 s.
NESW

Facing WNW 285°

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, 47.3 mi away.

Today

Surf height
6 to 9 ft

Waves at buoy 46050, Stonewall Bank

Wave height
3.6 ft
Period
8 s
From
WNW (287°)
Swell
3.6 ft at 8 s from WNW
Wind waves
0.7 ft at 4 s from N
Water
-
Read
Thu 8:50 PM
Distance
47.3 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; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftWed6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM3.6 ftWave height at buoy 46050, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftWedNoonThuNoon3.6 ft
Significant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
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°)
Thu 8:50 AM4.6 ft16 sSW (236°)
Thu 7:50 AM4.6 ft9 sW (281°)
Thu 6:50 AM4.9 ft9 sWNW (283°)
Thu 5:50 AM4.9 ft9 sWNW (295°)
Thu 4:50 AM4.9 ft11 sWNW (303°)
Thu 3:50 AM5.2 ft11 sWNW (294°)
Thu 2:50 AM5.9 ft11 sWNW (300°)
Thu 1:50 AM5.2 ft13 sW (280°)
Thu 12:50 AM5.2 ft16 sSW (236°)
Wed 11:50 PM4.9 ft13 sWNW (286°)
Wed 10:50 PM4.9 ft14 sW (259°)
Wed 9:50 PM4.3 ft12 sW (278°)

Surf zone forecast

Manzanita, Rockaway Beach and Pacific City Oregon. Issued 6:02 AM PDT Thu Oct 15.

ForecastTodayFriday
Surf height6 to 9 ft5 to 8 ft
Offshore swellNorthwest 5 ft at 12 seconds. Southwest 2 ft at 15 secondsWest 5 ft at 13 seconds
Thunderstorm potentialNone expectedNone expected
WeatherMostly sunnyPartly cloudy
High temperatureAround 7060 to 65
WindNE at 4 mphW at 1 mph
Sunrise/sunset timesSunrise - 7:33 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:29 PM PDTSunrise - 7:35 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:28 PM PDT
Tides

Beach

County
Tillamook County
State
Oregon
Latitude
45.2347° N
Longitude
123.9715° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest McPhillips Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Cedar RAWSCDFO3

A remote fire weather station/9.8 mi away/2,182 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

TillamookTMK

At an airfield/14.8 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station GW1195GW1195

In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.2 mi away/32 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

CloverdaleCLVO3

At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/24 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Tillamook 5.1 SSEOR-TL-8

In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.6 mi away/125 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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