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Island Beach, Connecticut

Beach in Connecticut

Air quality

The air at Island Beach

Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 15 miles off.

27Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
  • Ozone27Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Island Beach

None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.07in

Visibility

How far you can see at Island Beach, the next 44 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 8 PM.

FriSat
Island Beach from its sand, nowLooking ESE from the sand at 7:06 AM, the sun low over the water, overcast, waves about 1.8 ft every 4 s.110120130SE140Facing ESE 123°Sun 22° leftWind 9 mphfrom S, onshoreSwell 1.8 ft from SELongshore current, to the left
Looking ESE from the sand at 7:06 AM, the sun low over the water, overcast, waves about 1.8 ft every 4 s.
NESW

Facing ESE 123°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44065, 43.1 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance

Wave height
2.3 ft
Period
4 s
From
SE (137°)
Swell
1.3 ft at 15 s from SE
Wind waves
2.0 ft at 4 s from SE
Water
64 °F
Read
Fri 6:20 AM
Distance
43.1 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 44065, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 6:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ftNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PMFri2.3 ftWave height at buoy 44065, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 6:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ftNoonThuNoonFri2.3 ft
Significant wave height from 1.6 ft to 3.3 ft; 2.3 ft at Fri 6:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 6:20 AM2.3 ft4 sSE (137°)
Fri 5:50 AM2.3 ft4 sSE (129°)
Fri 4:50 AM2.3 ft4 sSE (130°)
Fri 3:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (120°)
Fri 2:50 AM2.3 ft4 sESE (120°)
Fri 1:50 AM2.0 ft3 sESE (115°)
Fri 12:50 AM2.0 ft10 sESE (120°)
Thu 11:50 PM2.0 ft3 sSE (125°)
Thu 10:50 PM2.0 ft3 sESE (114°)
Thu 9:50 PM2.0 ft10 sESE (121°)
Thu 8:50 PM2.0 ft10 sESE (109°)
Thu 7:50 PM1.6 ft10 sESE (109°)
Thu 6:50 PM1.6 ft11 sESE (112°)
Thu 5:50 PM1.6 ft9 sESE (119°)
Thu 4:50 PM1.6 ft11 sSE (127°)
Thu 3:50 PM1.6 ft4 sE (79°)
Thu 2:50 PM2.0 ft14 sESE (122°)
Thu 1:50 PM2.0 ft4 sENE (74°)
Thu 12:50 PM2.3 ft15 sENE (71°)
Thu 11:50 AM2.3 ft4 sENE (67°)
Thu 10:50 AM2.6 ft3 sNNE (27°)
Thu 9:50 AM2.6 ft4 sNE (55°)
Thu 8:50 AM2.6 ft4 sNNE (30°)
Thu 7:50 AM2.6 ft3 sNNE (31°)

Beach

County
-
State
Connecticut
Latitude
40.9883° N
Longitude
73.6119° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Island Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station EW3387EW3387

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Danbury MunicipalDXR

At an airfield/27.3 mi away/456 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Cos Cob 0.9 NNECT-FR-80

In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/34 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

GreenwichGREC3

At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/361 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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