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Tropicana Beach, New Jersey

Beach in Atlantic County, New Jersey

Air quality

The air at Tropicana Beach

Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, South Coastal (NJ), 6 miles off.

27Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good8 mi
  • Ozone20Good18 ppb8 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb8 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Tropicana Beach

0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.04in
Last 3 days
0.04in

Visibility

How far you can see at Tropicana Beach, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 8 AM.

FriSat
Tropicana Beach from its sand, nowLooking SSE from the sand at 7:39 AM, daylight, overcast, waves about 2.1 ft every 4 s.SE140150160170Facing SSE 154°Sun 48° leftWind 4 mphfrom S, onshoreSwell 2.1 ft from ESELongshore current, to the right
Looking SSE from the sand at 7:39 AM, daylight, overcast, waves about 2.1 ft every 4 s.
NESW

Facing SSE 154°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44091, 46.3 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44091, Barnegat

Wave height
2.6 ft
Period
4 s
From
ESE (103°)
Swell
0.7 ft at 10 s from ESE
Wind waves
2.6 ft at 4 s from ESE
Water
65 °F
Read
Fri 7:00 AM
Distance
46.3 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.

Wave height at buoy 44091, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.6 ft to 5.2 ft; 2.6 ft at Fri 7:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PMFri2.6 ftWave height at buoy 44091, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 2.6 ft to 5.2 ft; 2.6 ft at Fri 7:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftNoonThuNoonFri2.6 ft
Significant wave height from 2.6 ft to 5.2 ft; 2.6 ft at Fri 7:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 7:00 AM2.6 ft4 sESE (103°)
Fri 6:30 AM2.6 ft4 sE (87°)
Fri 5:30 AM3.0 ft4 sESE (102°)
Fri 4:30 AM3.0 ft4 sE (100°)
Fri 3:30 AM3.0 ft5 sE (81°)
Fri 2:30 AM3.0 ft4 sE (96°)
Fri 1:30 AM3.0 ft4 sENE (73°)
Fri 12:30 AM3.0 ft4 sE (80°)
Thu 11:30 PM3.0 ft5 sENE (67°)
Thu 10:30 PM2.6 ft5 sENE (71°)
Thu 9:30 PM2.6 ft5 sENE (76°)
Thu 8:30 PM2.6 ft5 sENE (58°)
Thu 7:00 PM2.6 ft5 sENE (61°)
Thu 6:30 PM3.0 ft5 sNE (54°)
Thu 5:30 PM3.0 ft5 sNE (56°)
Thu 4:30 PM3.3 ft5 sNE (54°)
Thu 3:30 PM3.6 ft5 sNE (50°)
Thu 2:30 PM3.6 ft5 sNE (46°)
Thu 1:30 PM4.3 ft5 sNE (47°)
Thu 12:30 PM4.6 ft6 sNE (38°)
Thu 11:30 AM5.2 ft5 sNE (37°)
Thu 10:30 AM4.9 ft5 sNNE (33°)
Thu 9:30 AM4.9 ft5 sNNE (30°)
Thu 8:30 AM4.6 ft5 sNNE (26°)

Beach

County
Atlantic County
State
New Jersey
Latitude
39.3512° N
Longitude
74.4446° W

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Tropicana Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Citizen station FW6400FW6400

In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Atlantic City INTLACY

At an airfield/10.2 mi away/66 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Atlantic City 2.1 SENJ-AT-14

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Abseeum Channel Usgc BaseATLN4

At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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