Citizen station EW0888EW0888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Sunny Isles Beach until 2 AM Monday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow evening, from about 5 PM, the chance peaking at 68% around 9 PM.
Now. Sunny Isles Beach is 83° and partly cloudy at 8 PM. With the humidity it feels like 90°. The dew point is 77°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 78° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Sunday, near 82°. Rain or snow is likely tomorrow (96%) and Sunday (74%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. 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 8:00 PM in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Miami (FL), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.7 miles Sun 9 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing ESE 104°
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 Miami-Dade.
Coastal Miami-Dade, including Miami. Issued 4:26 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | High |
| Surf height | 1 to 2 feet | 1 foot or less |
| Water temperature | In the mid 80s | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | Moderate | Moderate |
| Waterspout risk | None | - |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Showers and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the upper 80s | In the upper 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 103 | Up to 100 |
| Winds | Southeast winds around 10 mph | Southeast winds around 5 mph |
| Sunrise | 7:20 AM | 7:20 AM |
| Sunset | 6:53 PM | 6:52 PM |
| Tides | Miami Harbor EntranceHigh, 1:09 PM | Miami Harbor EntranceLow, 7:18 AMHigh, 2:00 PM |
The 6 instruments nearest Sunny Isles Beach, 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 now4 instruments
Citizen station EW0888EW0888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Port EvergladesNDBC-PEGF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Everglades ARSS2051
At a soil climate station/39.5 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
North Miami Beach 2.1 EFL-MD-77
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
North Miami Beach #2NMBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/39 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.