Tyndall AFBPAM
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Mexico Beach Park is 73° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 67° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 85°, and the coolest Saturday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 29 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Mexico Beach Park, Florida.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bay and Gulf Counties (FL), 14 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing SSW 210°
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 Bay.
Coastal Bay, including Panama City Beach and Magnolia Beach. Issued 10:53 AM CDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | Around 1 foot |
| Water temperature | 82 °F | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Weather | Sunny | Mostly sunny |
| High temperature | In the mid 80s | In the lower 80s |
| Winds | Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph | Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:44 AM | 7:45 AM |
| Sunset | 7:13 PM | 7:12 PM |
| Tides | Panama CityLow, 11:37 AM | Panama CityLow, 12:41 PM |
The 5 instruments nearest Mexico Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Tyndall AFBPAM
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CS1344CS1344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Panama CityNDBC-PACF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Port St. Joe 0.8 SSEFL-GF-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wewahitchka - Water Treatment PlantWEWF1
At a water treatment plant/17.2 mi away/78 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.