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Portage Beach, Washington

Beach in Jefferson County, Washington

Air quality

The air at Portage Beach

Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Port Townsend (WA), 7 miles off.

22Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good7.2 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Portage Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Portage Beach, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 5 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.

FriSat
Portage Beach from its sand, nowLooking WNW from the sand at 10:17 PM, night, fog, the water nearly flat every 9 s.280290300310NW320Facing WNW 300°
Looking WNW from the sand at 10:17 PM, night, fog, the water nearly flat every 9 s.
NESW

Facing WNW 300°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 46088, 29.2 mi away.

Waves at buoy 46088, New Dungeness

Wave height
0.3 ft
Period
-
From
-
Water
51 °F
Read
Thu 9:50 PM
Distance
29.2 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 46088, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.3 ft to 1.0 ft; 0.3 ft at Thu 9:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ftWed6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM0.3 ftWave height at buoy 46088, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.3 ft to 1.0 ft; 0.3 ft at Thu 9:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ftNoonThuNoon0.3 ft
Significant wave height from 0.3 ft to 1.0 ft; 0.3 ft at Thu 9:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Thu 9:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 8:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 7:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 6:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 5:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 4:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 3:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 2:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 1:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 12:50 PM0.3 ft--
Thu 11:50 AM0.3 ft--
Thu 10:50 AM0.3 ft--
Thu 9:50 AM0.3 ft--
Thu 8:50 AM0.3 ft--
Thu 7:50 AM0.3 ft--
Thu 6:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 5:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 4:50 AM1.0 ft7 sW (267°)
Thu 3:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 2:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 1:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 12:50 AM0.7 ft--
Wed 11:50 PM0.3 ft--
Wed 10:50 PM0.3 ft--

Beach

County
Jefferson County
State
Washington
Latitude
48.0322° N
Longitude
122.7310° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Portage Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station EW4664EW4664

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/218 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Port Townsend0S9

At an airfield/4.0 mi away/112 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Port TownsendNDBC-PTWW1

At a river or reservoir gauge/5.6 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Diamond Point GardinerTDIAM

Beside a road/10.3 mi away/279 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Marrowstone 0.7 WSWWA-JF-56

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/33 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Chimacum 4 Mi SCHMW1

At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/173 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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