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South Beach, Washington

Beach in Pierce County, Washington

Air quality

The air at South Beach

Index 60, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Tacoma-Puyallup (WA), 6 miles off.

60Moderate
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)60Moderate-
  • Ozone-1 ppb15.9 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide13Good14.4 ppb6.1 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at South Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 South Beach, the next 45 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 4 AM.

FriSat
South Beach from its sand, nowLooking WSW from the sand at 3:20 AM, night, mostly clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.240250260WFacing WSW 253°
Looking WSW from the sand at 3:20 AM, night, mostly clear, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.
NESW

Facing WSW 253°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

County
Pierce County
State
Washington
Latitude
47.1925° N
Longitude
122.5825° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest South Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Tacoma NarrowsTIW

At an airfield/5.2 mi away/292 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Tacoma Narrows BridgeTTNBR

Beside a road/5.3 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Citizen station GW7989GW7989

In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/148 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

TacomaNDBC-TCMW1

At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

University Place 1.5 SWA-PR-67

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/225 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Tacoma No. 1TACW1

At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

Elsewhere in Washington

23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.

Near South Beach

The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.

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Near South Beach

River and lake gauges