Parks/Florida/Fort Matanzas National Monument

Fort Matanzas National Monument, Florida

National Monument in St. Johns County, Florida

73° 88°/70°

Clear· Feels like 73°·Light air 2 mph SE

Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 77° after 88° today.

Now. Fort Matanzas National Monument is 73° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the southeast at 2 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 72° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.

The week. Highs stay close to 76° all week. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 24 mph.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:13 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

6Air quality

91%Humidity

1%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

73feels73

Today

Oct 16

8870

26%

UV 7

Sat

Oct 17

7771

29%

21mph

Sun

Oct 18

7464

23%

24mph

UV 6

Mon

Oct 19

7665

26%

18mph

UV 7

Tue

Oct 20

7764

20%

14mph

UV 7

Wed

Oct 21

7764

18%

14mph

UV 7

Thu

Oct 22

7764

27%

14mph

UV 7

73°

88°70°

77°71°

74°64°

76°65°

77°64°

As of 1:00 AM in Fort Matanzas National Monument, Florida.

Air quality

The air at Fort Matanzas National Monument

Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Putnam County (FL), 31 miles off.

6Good

Ozone-0 ppb15.4 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-

The days ahead

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

GoodModerate

19YesterdayOct 15
GoodTodayOct 16
GoodSatOct 17
GoodSunOct 18
GoodMonOct 19
GoodTueOct 20

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Fort Matanzas National Monument

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Fort Matanzas National Monument, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.

Park

Designation: National Monument
Area: 0.43 sq mi
Height at its point: 4 ft
County: St. Johns County
State: Florida
Latitude: 29.7111° N
Longitude: 81.2377° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Fort Matanzas National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERRSGTXF1

At a river or reservoir gauge/3.8 mi away/11 ft/7 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station EW2070EW2070

In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.1 mi away/20 ft/16 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

BunnellFIN

At an airfield/17.0 mi away/18 ft/14 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

St. Augustine 9.1 SSEFL-SJ-15