SumatraSURF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/46 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 91° today.
Now. Sumatra is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 62° by 8 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. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest Sunday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:28 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.
As of 2:00 AM in Sumatra, Florida.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Liberty County (FL), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Fri 9 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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The 6 instruments nearest Sumatra, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SumatraSURF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/46 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/20 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CS1344CS1344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.6 mi away/52 ft/29 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Wakulla #1S2009
At a soil climate station/38.9 mi away/150 ft/127 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Apalachicola 15.2 NFL-FR-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/17 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wewahitchka - Water Treatment PlantWEWF1
At a water treatment plant/15.0 mi away/78 ft/55 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Sumatra, Florida. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 67.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
From the northeast (40 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.