At an airfield/7.4 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jacob Riis Park Beach 2, New York
Beach in Queens County, New York64°
76°/57°
Overcast·
Feels like 64°·Gentle breeze 12 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (60%).
Now. Jacob Riis Park Beach 2 is 64° and overcast at 9 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
39Air quality
95%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
64feels64
20%
Today
Oct 16
7657
87%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5448
28%
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
5640
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6045
11%
17mph
Tue
Oct 20
6548
13%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
6452
18mph
Thu
Oct 22
6250
17mph
64°
76°57°
54°48°
56°40°
60°45°
65°48°
64°52°
62°50°
As of 9:00 AM in Jacob Riis Park Beach 2, New York.
Air quality
The air at Jacob Riis Park Beach 2
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Northeast Urban (NJ), 19 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good9.1 mi
- Ozone21Good16 ppb15.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide6Good6 ppb15.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb15.1 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.4 ppm15.2 mi
The days ahead
Highest 55, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 40TodayOct 16
- 40SatOct 17
- 45SunOct 18
- 55MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Jacob Riis Park Beach 2
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Jacob Riis Park Beach 2, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSE 147°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44065, 16.3 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance
- Wave height
- 2.6 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- ESE (102°)
- Swell
- 1.6 ft at 13 s from SE
- Wind waves
- 2.0 ft at 4 s from ESE
- Water
- 64 °F
- Read
- Fri 8:50 AM
- Distance
- 16.3 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.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (110°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | SE (129°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | SE (130°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (120°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (120°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (115°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (120°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SE (125°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (114°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (121°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 10 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 11 s | ESE (112°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 9 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 11 s | SE (127°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | E (79°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 14 s | ESE (122°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ENE (74°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 15 s | ENE (71°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ENE (67°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | NNE (27°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NE (55°) |
Beach
- County
- Queens County
- State
- New York
- Latitude
- 40.5669° N
- Longitude
- 73.8671° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Jacob Riis Park Beach 2, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW3340CW3340
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Reynolds Channel AT Reynolds ChannelREYN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.0 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SchodackNY003
Beside a road/20.7 mi away/328 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Queens 10.2 SNY-QN-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyossetSYON6
At a cooperative observer's station/26.4 mi away/251 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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