La Pointe4R5
At an airfield/4.5 mi away/624 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Barrier Beach, Wisconsin
Beach in Ashland County, Wisconsin* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 3 to 6 ft expected. * WHERE...Port Wing to Sand Island WI and Outer Apostle Islands Beyond 5 NM from Mainland. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Anyone operating a smaller vessel should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
40°
57°/37°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 36°·Light breeze 5 mph WSW
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Barrier Beach until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Barrier Beach is 40° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 66°, and the coolest Monday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 50 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
77%Humidity
46%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
40feels36
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
5737
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6142
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
5541
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5940
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6445
14%
Thu
Oct 22
5947
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
6646
10%
40°
57°37°
61°42°
55°41°
59°40°
64°45°
59°47°
66°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Barrier Beach, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Barrier Beach
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Northwoods West (WI), 69 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good14.3 mi
- Ozone22Good20 ppb14.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Barrier Beach
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.05in
- Last 3 days
- 0.73in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 7%
Visibility
How far you can see at Barrier Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 140°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 45006, 54.7 mi away.
Waves at buoy 45006, West Superior
- Wave height
- 2.0 ft
- Period
- 5 s
- From
- ENE (58°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 6 s from ENE
- Wind waves
- 1.6 ft at 5 s from ENE
- Water
- 49 °F
- Read
- Sat 12:50 AM
- Distance
- 54.7 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.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 5 s | ENE (58°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | WNW (287°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 5 s | NE (49°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | NW (326°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 8 s | NE (47°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 6 s | NE (44°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NNW (342°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 3.9 ft | 6 s | NE (50°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NE (49°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NE (48°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NE (36°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 6 s | NE (35°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 6.9 ft | - | NNE (30°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 6.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (33°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 6.9 ft | - | NE (35°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 7.2 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 6.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (23°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 7.5 ft | 7 s | NNE (22°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 6.2 ft | 6 s | NNE (20°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (31°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NE (39°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | NE (37°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (27°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (30°) |
Beach
- County
- Ashland County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 46.8193° N
- Longitude
- 90.6750° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Barrier Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW6222DW6222
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/602 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse Chequamegon Bay463741090521301
At a lighthouse/16.1 mi away/601 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/32.6 mi away/1,091 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
La Pointe 9.5 NEWI-AS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/646 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/614 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bayfield Fish Hatchery (BFHW3), 9.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Barrier Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bayfieldcity, 7 mi
- Apostle Islandsfeature, 9 mi
- Bayfrontcommunity, 14 mi
- Washburncity, 14 mi
- Diapervillecommunity, 15 mi
- Odanahcommunity, 15 mi
- New Odanahcommunity, 15 mi
- Ashlandcity, 19 mi
- Franks Fieldcommunity, 19 mi
- Cornucopiacommunity, 20 mi
- Birch Hillcommunity, 21 mi
- Saxoncommunity, 26 mi
Beaches near Barrier Beach
- Schoolhouse Beach4 mi
- Buffalo Bay Beach6 mi
- Joni's Beach6 mi
- Broad Street Beach7 mi
- Casper Road Beach7 mi
- Bayview Beach11 mi
- Friendly Valley Beach11 mi
- Little Sand Bay Beach13 mi