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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/California/Black Sands Beach
Black Sands Beach, California
Beach in Humboldt County, California58°
87°/51°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 58°·Light air 3 mph NE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 76° after 87° today.
Now. Black Sands Beach is 58° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
53%Humidity
34%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
58feels58
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8751
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
7648
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6845
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6142
22%
Tue
Oct 20
6342
20%
Wed
Oct 21
6742
10%
Thu
Oct 22
6542
mostly clear day
58°
87°51°
76°48°
68°45°
61°42°
63°42°
67°42°
65°42°
As of 12:00 AM in Black Sands Beach, California.
Air quality
The air at Black Sands Beach
Index 13, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Fort Bragg (CA), 44 miles off.
13Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 17, good.
GoodModerate
- 17YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Black Sands Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Black Sands Beach, the next 42 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing W 265°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 46022, 52.4 mi away.
Waves at buoy 46022, Eel River
- Wave height
- 4.3 ft
- Period
- 13 s
- From
- W (278°)
- Swell
- 3.9 ft at 12 s from WNW
- Wind waves
- 1.0 ft at 4 s from WNW
- Water
- 55 °F
- Read
- Thu 11:50 PM
- Distance
- 52.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 11:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 13 s | W (278°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 14 s | W (261°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 14 s | WNW (301°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (288°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 14 s | WNW (282°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 13 s | WNW (283°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 12 s | W (269°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 5.6 ft | 13 s | WNW (301°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | W (279°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | WNW (284°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | W (260°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 15 s | SW (235°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 13 s | WNW (299°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 14 s | WNW (284°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 15 s | WSW (248°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 13 s | W (279°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 14 s | W (267°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 14 s | WNW (296°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 5.6 ft | 12 s | NW (312°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | SW (227°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 15 s | WNW (296°) |
| Thu 2:50 AM | 5.2 ft | 13 s | W (280°) |
| Thu 1:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 16 s | W (261°) |
| Thu 12:50 AM | 5.6 ft | 15 s | W (271°) |
Beach
- County
- Humboldt County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 40.0433° N
- Longitude
- 124.0796° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Black Sands Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FortunaFOT
At an airfield/35.4 mi away/369 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW5061CW5061
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.5 mi away/201 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Whitethorn 6.8 WCA-HM-187
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/436 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ScotiaSCTC1
At a cooperative observer's station/30.4 mi away/138 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
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Near Black Sands Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Shelter Covecommunity, 1 mi
- Redwaycommunity, 14 mi
- Garbervillecommunity, 16 mi
- Benbowcommunity, 16 mi
- Myers Flatcommunity, 19 mi
- Mirandacommunity, 19 mi
- Phillipsvillecommunity, 19 mi
- Weottcommunity, 21 mi
- Leggettcommunity, 23 mi
- Redcrestcommunity, 26 mi
- Alderpointcommunity, 26 mi
- Scotiacommunity, 30 mi
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