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At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Castor Beach, Florida
Beach in Hillsborough County, Florida74°
89°/75°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Light air 1 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 9 AM (67%).
Now. Castor Beach is 74° and clear at 7 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 75° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 79° all week. Rain is likely tomorrow (67%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:23 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 30 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
98%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8975
54%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8074
67%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7763
16mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7964
13mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8063
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8063
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8063
UV 8
74°
89°75°
80°74°
77°63°
79°64°
80°63°
80°63°
80°63°
As of 7:00 AM in Castor Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Castor Beach
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Tampa (FL), 11 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 15
- 50TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Castor Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Castor Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Hillsborough County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 28.0637° N
- Longitude
- 82.4118° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Castor Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW0174GW0174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/37 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.3 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
University West 2.3 ENEFL-HB-129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/39 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hillsborough St PkZPHF1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.4 mi away/98 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Florida
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Castor Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Universitycommunity, 2 mi
- Temple Terracecity, 2 mi
- Lake Magdalenecommunity, 4 mi
- East Lake-Orient Parkcommunity, 5 mi
- Lutzcommunity, 6 mi
- Thonotosassacommunity, 6 mi
- Carrollwoodcommunity, 7 mi
- Egypt Lake-Letocommunity, 7 mi
- Northdalecommunity, 7 mi
- Pebble Creekcommunity, 8 mi
- Mangocommunity, 8 mi
- Tampacity, 8 mi
Beaches near Castor Beach
- White Sands Beach Park5 mi
- Gardenville Beach16 mi
- Mobbly Beach Park16 mi
- Picnic Island Beach17 mi
- Lithia Springs18 mi
- Apollo Beach20 mi
- Crystal Beach23 mi
- Bahia Beach23 mi