BuffaloNDBC-BUFN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Emerald Beach, New York
Beach in Erie County, New YorkSpecial Marine Warning, in full
SMWBUF The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a * Special Marine Warning for... Lake Erie from Ripley to Buffalo... * Until 900 AM EDT. * At 733 AM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 34 nm northwest of Van Buren Point to 11 nm northwest of Ripley to near Conneaut, moving east at 35 knots. HAZARD...Wind gusts to 40 knots. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves. * Locations impacted include... Small Boat Harbor, Van Buren Point, Lake Erie Beach, Barcelona, Woodlawn Beach, Erie Basin Marina, Sturgeon Point, Ripley, Wanakah, Dunkirk, Athol Springs, Bayview, and Sunset Bay.
Move to safe harbor immediately as gusty winds and high waves are expected.
68°
67°/53°
Light rain·
Feels like 68°·Fresh breeze 21 mph SW
Alert. A Special Marine Warning is in force for Emerald Beach until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 8 AM (54%).
Now. Emerald Beach is 68° and light rain at 7 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Fresh breeze from the southwest at 21 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
89%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
68feels68
26%
21mph
Today
Oct 16
6753
82%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
4837
13%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5936
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6440
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6540
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6342
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6540
mostly clear day
68°
67°53°
48°37°
59°36°
64°40°
65°40°
63°42°
65°40°
As of 7:00 AM in Emerald Beach, New York.
Air quality
The air at Emerald Beach
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Western New York Region (NY), 18 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good4.1 mi
- Ozone19Good21 ppb9.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 30TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Emerald Beach
0.22 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
- 0.22in
- Last 3 days
- 0.22in
Visibility
How far you can see at Emerald Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WSW 240°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Erie County
- State
- New York
- Latitude
- 42.8842° N
- Longitude
- 78.8905° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Emerald Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW5858GW5858
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/618 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/705 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Buffalo 1.5 WNY-ER-93
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/584 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West SenecaWSNN6
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/617 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New York
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Emerald Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Buffalocity, 1 mi
- Sloanvillage, 5 mi
- Lackawannacity, 6 mi
- Kenmorevillage, 6 mi
- Blasdellvillage, 7 mi
- Eggertsvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Tonawanda Towncommunity, 7 mi
- Cheektowagacommunity, 7 mi
- West Senecacommunity, 8 mi
- Grandyle Villagecommunity, 8 mi
- Tonawandacity, 9 mi
- Williamsvillevillage, 9 mi
Beaches near Emerald Beach
- Gallagher Beach3 mi
- Beaver Island Beach6 mi
- Woodlawn Beach State Park6 mi
- Hoover Beach7 mi
- Hamburg Beach8 mi
- Wendt Beach17 mi
- Buffalo Municipal Bathing Beach18 mi
- Bennett Beach18 mi