VeniceNDBC-VENF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golden Beach Entrance, Florida
Beach in Sarasota County, Florida80°
85°/77°
Clear·
Feels like 86°·Light breeze 7 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 10 AM (77%).
Now. Golden Beach Entrance is 80° and clear at 9 AM. With the humidity it feels like 86°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 78° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 79° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (82%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
29Air quality
89%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
80feels86
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8577
20%
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
8077
82%
28mph
Sun
Oct 18
7868
13%
28mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7968
25mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8068
23mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8068
20mph
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
7967
10%
17mph
UV 8
80°
85°77°
80°77°
78°68°
79°68°
80°68°
80°68°
79°67°
As of 9:00 AM in Golden Beach Entrance, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Golden Beach Entrance
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 20 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Ozone14Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Golden Beach Entrance
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
Visibility
How far you can see at Golden Beach Entrance, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WSW 248°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 1 foot or less
- Water temperature
- In the lower 80s
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota, including Clearwater Beach, Saint Pete Beach, Bradenton Beach, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Turtle Beach, and Venice. Issued 3:13 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Tonight | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less | 1 to 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - | - |
| UV index | High | - | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Low | Low |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Mostly cloudy until 2 AM, then partly cloudy until 5 AM, then mostly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Numerous showers with isolated thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | - | In the lower 80s |
| Low temperature | - | In the mid 70s | - |
| Winds | East winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon | North winds around 5 mph | North winds 10 to 15 mph |
| Tides | Saint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM | Saint PetersburgHigh, 5:11 AMVenice InletHigh, 3:09 AM | Saint PetersburgLow, 2:14 PMVenice InletLow, 12:36 PM |
Beach
- County
- Sarasota County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 27.0865° N
- Longitude
- 82.4551° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Golden Beach Entrance, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
VeniceVNC
At an airfield/1.4 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW7986CW7986
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
VeniceVNCF1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/33 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Venice 0.5 NNEFL-SS-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Florida
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Near Golden Beach Entrance
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Venicecity, 2 mi
- Nokomiscommunity, 3 mi
- Venice Gardenscommunity, 3 mi
- South Venicecommunity, 4 mi
- Laurelcommunity, 4 mi
- Plantationcommunity, 5 mi
- Ospreycommunity, 7 mi
- Vamocommunity, 10 mi
- Palmer Ranchcommunity, 10 mi
- Englewoodcommunity, 10 mi
- Warm Mineral Springscommunity, 12 mi
- Gulf Gatecommunity, 12 mi
Beaches near Golden Beach Entrance
- Nokomis Public Beach2 mi
- Caspersen Beach3 mi
- South Venice Beach4 mi
- Manasota Public Beach6 mi
- Venice Beach9 mi
- Middle Pass Beach10 mi
- Siesta Key Beach12 mi
- Cresent Beach12 mi