At an airfield/2.9 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hightower Beach Park, Florida
Beach in Brevard County, Florida81°
88°/79°
Clear·
Feels like 86°·Gentle breeze 9 mph ESE
Now. Hightower Beach Park is 81° and clear at 1 AM. With the humidity it feels like 86°. The dew point is 75°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 6 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 84°, and the coolest Sunday, near 80°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (82%). Rain is possible Sunday (45%), Monday (39%) and Thursday (38%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 29 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:15 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
29Air quality
80%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
81feels86
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8879
81%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8475
82%
24mph
Sun
Oct 18
8071
45%
29mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8171
39%
24mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8171
27%
20mph
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8271
25%
20mph
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
8270
38%
20mph
UV 7
81°
88°79°
84°75°
80°71°
81°71°
81°71°
82°71°
82°70°
As of 1:00 AM in Hightower Beach Park, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Hightower Beach Park
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Melbourne (FL), 11 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone29Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hightower Beach Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Hightower Beach Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 78°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
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 Coastal Indian River-Mainland Southern Brevard, Southern Brevard Barrier Islands, and the waves at buoy 41009, 33.0 mi away.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Moderate
- Surf height
- Around 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the lower 80s
- UV index
- High
Waves at buoy 41009, Canaveral
- Wave height
- 3.0 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- E (96°)
- Swell
- 1.3 ft at 8 s from ENE
- Wind waves
- 2.6 ft at 4 s from E
- Water
- -
- Read
- Fri 12:20 AM
- Distance
- 33.0 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.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12:20 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (91°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (81°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (92°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 5 s | E (83°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 8 s | E (86°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | E (83°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | ENE (75°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | E (83°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | E (83°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 7 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | ENE (75°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | E (79°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | E (81°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 7 s | E (81°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | ENE (70°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | E (81°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | E (81°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 7 s | E (86°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | ENE (73°) |
| Thu 2:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 8 s | E (88°) |
| Thu 1:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ENE (65°) |
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Indian River-Mainland Southern Brevard, Southern Brevard Barrier Islands, including Vero Beach, Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, and Melbourne Beach. Issued 11:00 AM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Moderate |
| Surf height | Around 2 feet | Around 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | Moderate |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers | Mostly sunny. Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the mid 80s | In the mid 80s |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | East winds 5 to 10 mph |
| Sunrise | 7:23 AM | 7:23 AM |
| Sunset | 6:54 PM | 6:53 PM |
| Tides | Port CanaveralHigh 4.3 ft, 11:34 AMSebastian InletHigh 2.5 ft, 11:36 AMLow 1.0 ft, 5:46 PM | Port CanaveralHigh 4.1 ft, 12:22 PMSebastian InletLow 0.8 ft, 6:03 AMHigh 2.4 ft, 12:21 PM |
- Saturday
- Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around 15 mph
- Sunday
- Mostly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs around 80. Windy. Northeast winds around 30 mph
- Monday
- Mostly sunny. Showers likely and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
Beach
- County
- Brevard County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 28.1954° N
- Longitude
- 80.5949° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hightower Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW7129DW7129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/46 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Trident PierNDBC-TRDF1
At a harbour/15.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Titusville 7 E92821
At a climate reference station/29.2 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Satellite Beach 1.6 NFL-BV-104
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MelbourneMLBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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