Marco IslandMKY
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Winterberry Beach until 2 AM Monday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Winterberry Beach is 77° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east-northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 71° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 86° all week. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:20 AM after midnight. 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Winterberry Beach, Florida.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Naples (FL), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, 0.61 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing W 266°
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 Collier.
Coastal Collier, including Naples and Marco Island. Issued 4:26 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 1 foot or less | 1 foot or less |
| Thunderstorm potential | Moderate | Moderate |
| Waterspout risk | None | - |
| Weather | Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms | Partly sunny. Showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | Around 90 | In the mid 80s |
| Max heat index | Up to 103 | - |
| Winds | Southwest winds around 5 mph | Light and variable winds, becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon |
| Sunrise | 7:26 AM | 7:27 AM |
| Sunset | 6:59 PM | 6:58 PM |
| Tides | North End of Naples BayLow, 11:46 AM | North End of Naples BayLow, 12:48 PM |
The 6 instruments nearest Winterberry Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Marco IslandMKY
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rookery BayRKXF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/16 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1630GW1630
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Everglades City 5 NE92826
At a climate reference station/26.1 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Marco Island 0.6 SFL-CR-72
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Marco IslandMCIF1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.