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Rialto Beach
Olympic Peninsula, WA
A rugged Pacific coastline in Olympic National Park, known for sea stacks, driftwood, and tidepools.
about the park
National Park
- World Heritage Site
date / time
date / time
2024-10-21
time
11:00 AM
season cycle, Fall
season cycle
iNaturalist community observations
- Giant Green Anemone43 obs
- Ochre Sea Star35 obs
- Pacific Banana Slug24 obs
- Fly Agaric19 obs
- Gooseneck Barnacle19 obs
- Aggregating Anemone18 obs
- Bull Kelp17 obs
- salal14 obs
research-grade observations within 25 km during this calendar month. Counts are total verified iNaturalist observations
light / sun / UV
UV index
0.3 · low
UV clear sky
1.5 · low
solar (GHI)
242 W/m² · overcast
solar DNI
85 W/m²
solar DHI
187 W/m²
clearness
0.53
weather / radar
weather
weather
Clear sky
temperature
52°F
humidity
91%
cloud cover
7%
pressure
1015 hPa
wind
4 mph
gusts 5 mph · E 99°
cloud layers
visibility
9.2 mi
rain
0"
dew point
50°F
radar
radar· ±1h · 10min

reflectivity (dBZ)
0–75
water
water
Nearest USGS gage, 8.9 km away (not at shutter GPS)
tide· 24h
sea surface
54°F
rising – 4.3 ft
tide station
La Push, Quillayute River, WA · 3.4 km
waves
1.6 m · 9s
wave direction
W
swell
1.6 m
Bogachiel River
30.0 ft · 8.9 km
atmosphere / air quality
satellite
satellite· ±1h · 20min

atmosphere
EPA AQI
30
PM2.5
2.3 µg/m³ · good
European AQI
27 · fair
PM10
3.9 µg/m³ · good
ozone
68 µg/m³ · fair
NO₂
1 µg/m³ · good
SO₂
0 µg/m³ · good
air clarity
0.03 · crystal clear
dust
0 µg/m³ · clear
CO
142 µg/m³ · good
sky cover
UIL · broken at 5,000 ft
UIL · broken at 5,000 ft · 52°F · 6.6 kmMETAR
KUIL 211800Z AUTO 08004KT 10SM BKN050 11/09 A2998 RMK T01100090 MADISHF
METAR observed
11:00 AM
night sky
moon
lunar cycle: Waning Gibbous - day 20 visible (20°)
daily moon cycle: moon setting
night sky
darkness
1 · excellent dark-sky site
light: dayseeing Fair
milky way
Geometric positions at capture (not naked-eye visibility)
astronomical events
Orionids
technical
sensor / film
color science
Sony
focal length
22mm (61mm equiv.)
exposure triangle: f/4 · 1/250s · 100
exposure triangle
color
histogram
attribution
© 2024 frank charlton
data attribution
- Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)
- Tide data: NOAA CO-OPS
- METAR / NEXRAD: Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University
- Hydrology: USGS Water Data
- Basemap: USGS The National Map
- Solar: NASA POWER (CC BY 4.0)
- Satellite: GOES-West (NOAA/NESDIS); NaturalColor derived (CIMSS recipe)
- Water quality: Washington State Department of Ecology
- Weather interpolated from nearest METAR station (QUILLAYUTE STATE, 6.6 km)
- Tide predictions from NOAA CO-OPS station La Push, Quillayute River, WA (3.4 km)
- Radar: NEXRAD LGX (100.5 km), scan time ±10 min
- Satellite: GOES-West (goes18), product time ±20 min
- Sun, moon, and planet positions computed for exact coordinates
- Basemap: USGS Imagery, center ±2.5°