Citizen station KA2LACKA2LAC
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/11 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (50%).
Now. Cape Coral is 76° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 69° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. Highs stay close to 83° all week. Rain is possible tomorrow (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:20 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Cape Coral, Florida.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Fort Myers (FL), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Mon 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cape Coral, FloridaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cape Coral, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station KA2LACKA2LAC
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/11 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort MyersNDBC-FMRF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/16 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cape Coral 3.1 ESEFL-LE-78
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/7 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MuseMUSF1
At a cooperative observer's station/30.6 mi away/49 ft/36 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.4 mi from Cape Coral, Florida. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 12,000 ft; the ceiling is 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.0 F with a dew point of 74.0 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 12,000 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.