Virginia KeyNDBC-VAKF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 70% around 3 PM.
Now. Historic Virginia Key Beach Park is 84° and mostly clear at 9 AM. With the humidity it feels like 92°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 78° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Sunday, near 83°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (85%) and Sunday (71%). Rain is possible Monday (30%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:20 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, Florida.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing SSE 149°
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.
The surf zone forecast for Coastal Miami-Dade.
Coastal Miami-Dade, including Miami. Issued 3:21 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | High |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 1 foot or less |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - |
| UV index | Very High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Low | Moderate |
| Waterspout risk | None | - |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms | Mostly sunny until 4 PM, then mostly cloudy. Showers and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the upper 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 105 | Up to 100 |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:20 AM | 7:20 AM |
| Sunset | 6:53 PM | 6:52 PM |
| Tides | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 6:27 AMHigh, 1:09 PM | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 7:18 AMHigh, 2:00 PM |
The 6 instruments nearest Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Virginia KeyNDBC-VAKF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW3129FW3129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.9 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Everglades ARSS2051
At a soil climate station/29.8 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Miami Beach 2.7 SFL-MD-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/2 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Miami BeachMIBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.