At an airfield/3.1 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow afternoon, from about 3 PM (94%).
Now. Lauderdale Lakes is 84° and partly cloudy at 11 AM. With the humidity it feels like 91°. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 77° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Sunday, near 82°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (96%) and Sunday (83%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:19 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Broward County (FL), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lauderdale Lakes, FloridaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lauderdale Lakes, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/8 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Port EvergladesNDBC-PEGF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tamarac 2.7 ESEFL-BW-54
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/8 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort LauderdaleFTLF1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/33 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.1 mi from Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,000 ft, broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
85.0 F with a dew point of 78.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
From the east (100 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Fort Lauderdale, 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.