Port EvergladesNDBC-PEGF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow afternoon, from about 3 PM (89%).
Now. South City Beach Park is 87° and mostly clear at 1 PM. With the humidity it feels like 98°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 77° by 7 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 82°. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (90%) and Sunday (80%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:19 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in South City Beach Park, Florida.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing E 96°
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 Broward.
Coastal Broward, including Fort Lauderdale. 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 5 instruments nearest South City Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Port EvergladesNDBC-PEGF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Lauderdale - HollywoodFLL
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW0888EW0888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hallandale 1.2 ENEFL-BW-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HollywoodHLWF1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/30 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.