Citizen station FW3872FW3872
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
East Jetty, Alabama
Beach in Baldwin County, AlabamaGale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Gale Warning, north winds 30 to 35 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and seas 5 to 8 ft expected. For the Small Craft Advisory, northeast winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and seas 4 to 7 ft expected. * WHERE...Coastal waters from Pensacola FL to Pascagoula MS out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Okaloosa Walton County Line FL to Pensacola FL out 20 NM. * WHEN...For the Gale Warning, from 7 PM this evening to 1 AM CDT Sunday. For the Small Craft Advisory, from 1 AM Sunday to 7 PM CDT Monday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous conditions.
72°
82°/68°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 72°·Calm 0 mph SE
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for East Jetty until 1 AM Sunday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 82° today.
Now. East Jetty is 72° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
100%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
72feels72
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8268
19%
17mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7255
17%
20mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7253
16mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7554
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
7756
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7757
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7857
overcast
72°
82°68°
72°55°
72°53°
75°54°
77°56°
77°57°
78°57°
As of 3:00 AM in East Jetty, Alabama.
Air quality
The air at East Jetty
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Pensacola (FL), 38 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
- Ozone12Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 61YesterdayOct 15
- ModerateTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at East Jetty
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at East Jetty, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSE 162°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal, and the waves at buoy 42012, 14.4 mi away.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 1 to 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the upper 70s
- UV index
- High
Waves at buoy 42012, Orange Beach
- Wave height
- 3.0 ft
- Period
- -
- From
- SSE (158°)
- Swell
- 2.6 ft at 5 s from SSE
- Wind waves
- 1.3 ft at 4 s from SSE
- Water
- 80 °F
- Read
- Fri 2:20 AM
- Distance
- 14.4 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2:20 AM | 3.0 ft | - | SSE (158°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.6 ft | - | S (178°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 2.6 ft | - | S (184°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | S (185°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 2.3 ft | - | S (182°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | - | S (171°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | S (172°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.0 ft | - | SSW (193°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 6 s | S (190°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 6 s | S (175°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 6 s | S (172°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 6 s | SSE (164°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 6 s | SSW (195°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 1.3 ft | - | S (185°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 6 s | S (191°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 6 s | S (191°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 6 s | S (186°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 1.0 ft | - | S (182°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.0 ft | - | S (180°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 6 s | S (187°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 1.0 ft | - | SSE (167°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 1.0 ft | - | S (169°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 1.0 ft | - | S (172°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 6 s | S (181°) |
Surf zone forecast
Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal, including Dauphin Island, Fort Morgan, Gulf Shores, and Orange Beach. Issued 3:02 AM CDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 2 to 3 feet | 2 to 3 feet |
| Water temperature | In the upper 70s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Weather | Partly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms | Partly cloudy until 2 AM, then mostly cloudy until 3 AM, then partly cloudy | Sunny |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | - | In the lower 70s |
| Low temperature | - | In the upper 50s | - |
| Winds | Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon | Windy. Northwest winds around 20 mph, increasing to north around 30 mph after midnight | Windy. North winds around 30 mph, diminishing to around 20 mph in the afternoon |
| Tides | Dauphin IslandLow 0.2 ft, 2:05 PM | Dauphin IslandHigh 1.7 ft, 2:31 AM | Dauphin IslandLow 0.2 ft, 3:04 PM |
- Saturday night
- Moderate rip current risk. Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
- Sunday
- High rip current risk. Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
- Sunday night
- High rip current risk. Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Monday
- High rip current risk. Surf height 3 to 5 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Monday night
- High rip current risk. Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
- Tuesday
- High rip current risk. Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Baldwin County
- State
- Alabama
- Latitude
- 30.2696° N
- Longitude
- 87.5564° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest East Jetty, 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 now5 instruments
Gulf ShoresJKA
At an airfield/7.0 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Gasque/Bonsecour WmaBONA1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.3 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Koptis FarmsS2180
At a soil climate station/19.5 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Fairhope 3 NE63869
At a climate reference station/26.4 mi away/95 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Orange Beach 0.5 EAL-BW-113
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Weeks Bay NerrWKXA1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.0 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Alabama
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near East Jetty
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Orange Beachcity, 2 mi
- Perdido Beachtown, 7 mi
- Gulf Shorestown, 8 mi
- Elbertatown, 9 mi
- Bon Secourcommunity, 11 mi
- Foleycity, 11 mi
- Lilliancommunity, 12 mi
- Magnolia Springstown, 16 mi
- Summerdaletown, 17 mi
- Robertsdalecity, 21 mi
- Silverhilltown, 22 mi
- Fairhopecity, 26 mi
Beaches near East Jetty
- West Jettyunder 1 mi
- Alabama Point Beachunder 1 mi
- Shell Beachunder 1 mi
- Gulf Shores Public Beach8 mi
- Magnolia Beach27 mi
- South Beach Park27 mi
- East End Beach31 mi
- Dauphin Beach33 mi