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Middle Beach, California

Beach in Los Angeles County, California

Air quality

The air at Middle Beach

Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, South Coastal LA (CA), 34 miles off.

32Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
  • Ozone32Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-

The days ahead

Moderate each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 45, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Middle Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Middle Beach, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.

FriSat
Middle Beach from its sand, nowLooking NE from the sand at 9:18 PM, night, clear, waves about 2.9 ft every 15 s.3040NE506070Facing NE 50°Moon 177° leftWind 10 mphfrom NNE, onshore
Looking NE from the sand at 9:18 PM, night, clear, waves about 2.9 ft every 15 s.
NESW

Facing NE 50°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 46025, 52.1 mi away.

Waves at buoy 46025, Santa Monica Basin

Wave height
3.6 ft
Period
15 s
From
SSE (153°)
Swell
2.3 ft at 15 s from SSE
Wind waves
3.0 ft at 4 s from NNW
Water
72 °F
Read
Thu 8:50 PM
Distance
52.1 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.

Wave height at buoy 46025, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.6 ft to 4.3 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftWed6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM3.6 ftWave height at buoy 46025, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.6 ft to 4.3 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftWedNoonThuNoon3.6 ft
Significant wave height from 2.6 ft to 4.3 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 8:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Thu 8:50 PM3.6 ft15 sSSE (153°)
Thu 7:50 PM3.9 ft15 sSSW (200°)
Thu 6:50 PM3.6 ft15 sSSW (195°)
Thu 5:50 PM3.0 ft14 sSSW (192°)
Thu 4:50 PM3.0 ft15 sS (186°)
Thu 3:50 PM3.0 ft15 sS (190°)
Thu 2:50 PM2.6 ft15 sSSE (148°)
Thu 1:50 PM3.0 ft15 sSSW (201°)
Thu 12:50 PM3.0 ft15 sS (172°)
Thu 11:50 AM3.6 ft15 sSSW (210°)
Thu 10:50 AM3.0 ft16 sSSW (212°)
Thu 9:50 AM2.6 ft14 sSSE (166°)
Thu 8:50 AM3.0 ft15 sS (181°)
Thu 7:50 AM3.0 ft15 sS (183°)
Thu 6:50 AM3.0 ft15 sS (179°)
Thu 5:50 AM3.3 ft15 sSSW (206°)
Thu 4:50 AM3.0 ft15 sS (190°)
Thu 3:50 AM3.3 ft16 sSSE (161°)
Thu 2:50 AM3.3 ft16 sS (171°)
Thu 1:50 AM3.0 ft16 sSSE (163°)
Thu 12:50 AM3.3 ft15 sSSW (198°)
Wed 11:50 PM3.3 ft16 sSSE (156°)
Wed 10:50 PM3.3 ft16 sSSW (205°)
Wed 9:50 PM3.0 ft15 sSSW (201°)

Beach

County
Los Angeles County
State
California
Latitude
33.3442° N
Longitude
118.3259° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Middle Beach, 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

Avalon/CatalinaAVX

At an airfield/6.7 mi away/1,601 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station CW3786CW3786

In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.2 mi away/596 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Rolling Hills 3.9 SECA-LA-97

In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/279 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Long Beach - Palos VerdesPAVC1

At a cooperative observer's station/31.7 mi away/257 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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