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Public Beach Access 3, Florida

Beach in Sarasota County, Florida

Air quality

The air at Public Beach Access 3

Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Sarasota (FL), 16 miles off.

37Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good-
  • Ozone29Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Public Beach Access 3

0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.06in
Last 3 days
0.06in

Visibility

How far you can see at Public Beach Access 3, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 10 AM.

FriSat
Public Beach Access 3 from its sand, nowLooking SW from the sand at 1:05 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 0.8 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, low (green), not a flag raised on the beach.220SW230240250Facing SW 234°Wind 9 mphfrom E, offshore
Looking SW from the sand at 1:05 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 0.8 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, low (green), not a flag raised on the beach.
NESW

Facing SW 234°

300 ft

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.

Surf and swim

The surf zone forecast for Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota.

Today

Rip current risk
Low
Surf height
1 foot or less
Water temperature
In the lower 80s
UV index
High

Surf zone forecast

Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota, including Clearwater Beach, Saint Pete Beach, Bradenton Beach, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Turtle Beach, and Venice. Issued 2:17 AM EDT Thu Oct 15.

ForecastTodayTonightFriday
Rip current riskLowLowLow
Surf height1 foot or less1 foot or less1 foot or less
Water temperatureIn the lower 80s--
UV indexHigh--
Thunderstorm potentialLowLowLow
WeatherSunny. Isolated showers and thunderstormsPartly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstormsMostly sunny. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms
High temperatureIn the upper 80s-In the upper 80s
Low temperature-In the mid 70s-
WindsEast winds 5 to 10 mphEast winds around 10 mphEast winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon
TidesSaint PetersburgLow, 12:07 PMVenice InletLow, 10:29 AMSaint PetersburgHigh, 4:23 AMVenice InletHigh, 2:21 AMSaint PetersburgLow, 1:06 PMVenice InletLow, 11:28 AM

Beach

County
Sarasota County
State
Florida
Latitude
27.2745° N
Longitude
82.5677° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Public Beach Access 3, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station KB4PKB4P

In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/21 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Sarasota-BradentonSRQ

At an airfield/8.8 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Ward Lake Near Bradenton02300042

At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Sarasota 4.0 SFL-SS-52

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

BradentonBRAF1

At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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