Citizen station GW0815GW0815
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/480 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/Washington/Spring Beach
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 72° today.
Now. Spring Beach is 49° and fog at 8 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 70): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 63°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (62%). Rain is possible Thursday (33%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:57 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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. The day is 10 hours 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Spring Beach, Washington.
Air quality
Index 70, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Tacoma-Puyallup (WA), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 5 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing W 278°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Spring Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0815GW0815
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/480 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/6.3 mi away/292 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
TacomaNDBC-TCMW1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gig Harbor 5.0 NWA-PR-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/341 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
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.