At an airfield/3.4 mi away/23 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rip Current Statement, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Rip Current Statement is in force for Lauderdale-by-the-Sea until 8 PM Thursday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is 81° and overcast at 11 AM. With the humidity it feels like 84°. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 78° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 83° all week. Rain is likely Friday (51%) and Saturday (66%). Rain is possible tomorrow (37%) and Tuesday (32%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 1:09 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 30 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Broward County (FL), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 8 AM.
Precipitation
4.55 in in the last 24 hours, 5.40 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Tue 8 AM, lowest 9 miles Tue 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FloridaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/23 ft/6 ft above here
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Citizen station GW2960GW2960
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/5 ft/12 ft below here
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Port EvergladesNDBC-PEGF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
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measured daily2 instruments
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea 1.6 NFL-BW-157
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/43 ft/26 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.4 mi from Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida. From its report of Oct 18, 2026, 10:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,900 ft, overcast at 3,500 ft; the ceiling is 3,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
80.0 F with a dew point of 70.0 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,900 ft.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Pompano Beach, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.