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Cape Lookout Beach, Oregon

Beach in Tillamook County, Oregon

Air quality

The air at Cape Lookout Beach

Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tillamook (OR), 8 miles off.

18Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 19, good.

Smoke, the next 43 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Cape Lookout Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Cape Lookout Beach, the next 43 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 9 PM, under a mile for 8 hours.

FriSat
Cape Lookout Beach from its sand, nowLooking W from the sand at 11:32 PM, night, clear, waves about 7.5 ft every 14 s.260W280290300Facing W 280°Wind 8 mphfrom E, offshoreSwell 7.5 ft from SWLongshore current, to the right
Looking W from the sand at 11:32 PM, night, clear, waves about 7.5 ft every 14 s.
NESW

Facing W 280°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The surf zone forecast for Manzanita, Rockaway Beach and Pacific City Oregon, and the waves at buoy 46050, 55.7 mi away.

Today

Surf height
6 to 9 ft

Waves at buoy 46050, Stonewall Bank

Wave height
3.6 ft
Period
14 s
From
SW (226°)
Swell
3.6 ft at 14 s from SW
Wind waves
0.7 ft at 4 s from NNW
Water
-
Read
Thu 10:50 PM
Distance
55.7 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 46050, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ft6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM3.6 ftWave height at buoy 46050, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft8 ftNoonThuNoon3.6 ft
Significant wave height from 3.6 ft to 5.9 ft; 3.6 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Thu 10:50 PM3.6 ft14 sSW (226°)
Thu 9:50 PM3.9 ft9 sW (276°)
Thu 8:50 PM3.6 ft8 sWNW (287°)
Thu 7:50 PM3.9 ft15 sSW (229°)
Thu 6:50 PM4.3 ft10 sWNW (288°)
Thu 5:50 PM4.3 ft10 sWNW (287°)
Thu 4:50 PM3.9 ft13 sW (262°)
Thu 3:50 PM4.6 ft9 sWNW (292°)
Thu 2:50 PM4.3 ft9 sWNW (297°)
Thu 1:50 PM4.3 ft13 sW (274°)
Thu 12:50 PM4.3 ft14 sWSW (249°)
Thu 11:50 AM4.6 ft8 sW (280°)
Thu 10:50 AM4.6 ft12 sW (274°)
Thu 9:50 AM4.6 ft8 sWNW (286°)
Thu 8:50 AM4.6 ft16 sSW (236°)
Thu 7:50 AM4.6 ft9 sW (281°)
Thu 6:50 AM4.9 ft9 sWNW (283°)
Thu 5:50 AM4.9 ft9 sWNW (295°)
Thu 4:50 AM4.9 ft11 sWNW (303°)
Thu 3:50 AM5.2 ft11 sWNW (294°)
Thu 2:50 AM5.9 ft11 sWNW (300°)
Thu 1:50 AM5.2 ft13 sW (280°)
Thu 12:50 AM5.2 ft16 sSW (236°)
Wed 11:50 PM4.9 ft13 sWNW (286°)

Surf zone forecast

Manzanita, Rockaway Beach and Pacific City Oregon. Issued 6:02 AM PDT Thu Oct 15.

ForecastTodayFriday
Surf height6 to 9 ft5 to 8 ft
Offshore swellNorthwest 5 ft at 12 seconds. Southwest 2 ft at 15 secondsWest 5 ft at 13 seconds
Thunderstorm potentialNone expectedNone expected
WeatherMostly sunnyPartly cloudy
High temperatureAround 7060 to 65
WindNE at 4 mphW at 1 mph
Sunrise/sunset timesSunrise - 7:33 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:29 PM PDTSunrise - 7:35 AM PDT. Sunset - 6:28 PM PDT
Tides

Beach

County
Tillamook County
State
Oregon
Latitude
45.3787° N
Longitude
123.9668° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Cape Lookout Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.9 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station GW1195GW1195

In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/32 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

TillamookTMK

At an airfield/7.9 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Tillamook RAWSTMKO3

A remote fire weather station/9.6 mi away/39 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Tillamook 5.1 SSEOR-TL-8

In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/125 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Tillamook 6SeTKSO3

At a cooperative observer's station/10.5 mi away/102 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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