At a river or reservoir gauge/3.4 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/California/Kite beach
Now. Kite beach is 63° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Monday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Kite beach, California.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Concord (CA), 14 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing ESE 114°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Kite beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.4 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SR-12 - SR-160CF105
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/-6 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Antioch 0.9 SSWCA-CC-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/206 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/3,102 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.