Watch Hill - Great Southern BayFIRN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.2 mi away/12 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Fire Island National Seashore is 55° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest Saturday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 51% lit, and sets at 12:04 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Fire Island National Seashore, New York.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Fire Island National Seashore, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Watch Hill - Great Southern BayFIRN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.2 mi away/12 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW8546EW8546
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/19 ft/17 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-495 EB @ Rte 112NY001
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/89 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/98 ft/96 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Patchogue 0.8 SSENY-SF-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/1 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Upton NWSOKXN6
At a cooperative observer's station/13.2 mi away/101 ft/99 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.