Virginia KeyNDBC-VAKF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Hobie Island Beach until 8 PM Wednesday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 5 PM, the chance peaking at 72% around 7 PM.
Now. Hobie Island Beach is 84° and partly cloudy at 3 PM. With the humidity it feels like 94°. The dew point is 75°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 76° by 1 AM, with some cloud.
The week. Highs stay close to 84° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (63%). Rain is possible Monday (37%) and Friday (33%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:14 AM after midnight. 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 day is 11 hours 32 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Hobie Island Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.52 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.8 miles Sun 7 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing S 186°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: high
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 3:52 AM EDT Sat Oct 17.
| Forecast | Today | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | High | High |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 2 to 3 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Moderate | Moderate |
| Weather | Partly sunny. Showers and a chance of thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Showers and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the lower 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 100 | - |
| Winds | Light and variable winds, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon | Breezy. Northeast winds 20 to 25 mph |
| Sunrise | 7:20 AM | 7:21 AM |
| Sunset | 6:52 PM | 6:51 PM |
| Tides | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 7:18 AMHigh, 2:00 PM | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 8:17 AMHigh, 2:56 PM |
The 6 instruments nearest Hobie Island Beach, 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 now4 instruments
Virginia KeyNDBC-VAKF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW3129FW3129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/13 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Everglades ARSS2051
At a soil climate station/27.7 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Miami 1.3 SFL-MD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Miami BeachMIBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 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.