LopezS31
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/190 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaches/Washington/Fourth of July Beach
Now. Fourth of July Beach is 44° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 11 PM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 55° all week. Rain is possible Saturday (41%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 53% lit, and sets at 12:06 AM after midnight. 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. The bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The day is 10 hours 42 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Fourth of July Beach, Washington.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Anacortes (WA), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 5 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Sun 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Facing NE 38°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The waves at buoy 46088, 12.4 mi away.
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.
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 8:20 AM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Sun 7:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 6 s | WSW (245°) |
| Sun 6:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SW (233°) |
| Sun 5:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 9 s | WSW (242°) |
| Sun 4:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | WSW (243°) |
| Sun 3:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 10 s | WSW (247°) |
| Sun 2:50 AM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Sun 1:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 4 s | WSW (240°) |
| Sun 12:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 4 s | WSW (253°) |
| Sat 11:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 4 s | WSW (245°) |
| Sat 10:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 4 s | W (265°) |
| Sat 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | W (265°) |
| Sat 8:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | W (267°) |
| Sat 7:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | WSW (258°) |
| Sat 6:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | W (267°) |
| Sat 5:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | W (265°) |
| Sat 4:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | WSW (256°) |
| Sat 3:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | WSW (258°) |
| Sat 2:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | WSW (255°) |
| Sat 1:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | W (272°) |
| Sat 12:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | WSW (253°) |
| Sat 11:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | WSW (255°) |
| Sat 10:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | WSW (250°) |
| Sat 9:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | W (261°) |
The 6 instruments nearest Fourth of July Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LopezS31
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/190 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Friday HarborNDBC-FRDW1
At a harbour/5.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW6225CW6225
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/74 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mount VernonTAVON
Beside a road/26.3 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Friday Harbor 3.6 SWA-SJ-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/285 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Padilla Bay FarmPBFW1
On a farm or research station/24.6 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.