At an airfield/1.7 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Patrick AFB Beach, Florida
Beach in Brevard County, Florida79°
88°/79°
Clear·
Feels like 79°·Light breeze 5 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow afternoon, from about 3 PM (55%).
Now. Patrick AFB Beach is 79° and clear at 7 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 5 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. Highs stay close to 82° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (72%). Rain is possible Sunday (43%), Monday (37%) and Thursday (34%). 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
88%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
79feels79
15%
Today
Oct 16
8879
64%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8375
72%
24mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
8172
43%
29mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8172
37%
24mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8172
21%
21mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
8172
16%
18mph
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
8171
34%
17mph
UV 7
79°
88°79°
83°75°
81°72°
81°72°
81°72°
81°72°
81°71°
As of 7:00 AM in Patrick AFB Beach, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Patrick AFB Beach
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Melbourne (FL), 10 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone30Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Patrick AFB Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. 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 Patrick AFB Beach, the next 44 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 68°
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, 32.3 mi away.
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
- 2.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- ESE (105°)
- Swell
- 2.0 ft at 4 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 1.3 ft at 4 s from ESE
- Water
- -
- Read
- Fri 7:20 AM
- Distance
- 32.3 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 7:20 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (105°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (114°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | E (94°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (95°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | E (92°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (97°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (88°) |
| 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°) |
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Indian River-Mainland Southern Brevard, Southern Brevard Barrier Islands, including Vero Beach, Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, and Melbourne Beach. Issued 3:00 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | High |
| Surf height | Around 2 feet | 2 to 3 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 80s | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Moderate | Moderate |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the lower 80s |
| Winds | Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph | Northwest winds around 5 mph, increasing to north around 20 mph in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:23 AM | 7:24 AM |
| Sunset | 6:53 PM | 6:52 PM |
| Tides | Port CanaveralHigh 4.1 ft, 12:22 PMSebastian InletLow 0.8 ft, 6:03 AMHigh 2.4 ft, 12:21 PM | Port CanaveralLow 1.3 ft, 6:43 AMHigh 4.0 ft, 1:11 PMSebastian InletLow 0.9 ft, 6:54 AMHigh 2.3 ft, 1:12 PM |
- Sunday
- Mostly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
- Monday
- Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
- Tuesday
- Mostly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs around 80. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Brevard County
- State
- Florida
- Latitude
- 28.2127° N
- Longitude
- 80.5967° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Patrick AFB Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW7129DW7129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/46 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Trident PierNDBC-TRDF1
At a harbour/14.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Titusville 7 E92821
At a climate reference station/28.0 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/0.9 mi away/8 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MelbourneMLBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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