McMurdo today
The globe opens over McMurdo (77.8° S, 166.7° E) with the latest satellite clouds and rain radar, and McMurdo's place card open: its local time, current weather, sunrise and sunset, the Moon, and any alerts near it.
Below, as the page is served, are the alerts near McMurdo and which sources were checked for them, its weather now and over the next day, its air quality, then its day on its own clock (Antarctica/McMurdo): sunrise, sunset and the length of the day, golden and blue hour, the Moon's phase and when it's up, the coming week's sunsets, and the next full Moon and eclipses seen from McMurdo; then what might cross its sky.
Alerts near McMurdo
Nothing active near McMurdo at GMT+13 from what was checked: tropical cyclones, tsunami bulletins, earthquakes, GDACS disaster alerts, satellite fire detections and air quality. This page is not a warning service: in an emergency, follow your local authorities.
Weather over McMurdo
- Nowpartly cloudy, -19°C, feels -25°C · wind E 16 km/h · 59% cloud cover
- Next 24 hourshigh -16°C around , low -21°C around · under a 20% chance of rain or snow
- Hour by hour -19°C, partly cloudy · -21°C, partly cloudy · -21°C, overcast · -19°C, overcast · -17°C, partly cloudy · -16°C, partly cloudy · -16°C, partly cloudy · -17°C, overcast
- Air qualitygood, US AQI 15 · modeled for the area by Copernicus CAMS, not measured by a monitor
From Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), as of GMT+13. A forecast, not a warning: for warnings, see the alerts above and your local authorities.
Sun and Moon over McMurdo, Sun Nov 8
- Sunstays up all day, the midnight sun, 29° up at its highest at
- Golden hourmorning until , evening from
- Moonnew Moon, 1% lit, neither rising nor setting today
- Next Moonsnew Mon Nov 9 at , full Wed Nov 25 at
- Next solar eclipse hereDec 6, 2029, partial: 81% of the Sun covered at , 12° up
- Next lunar eclipse hereJul 7, 2028, partial: at its deepest at , 24° up
Times on McMurdo's clock (GMT+13), worked out with astronomy-engine as this page was served.
Over McMurdo
- Southern lightstoo light to see: the sky doesn't get dark at this time of year, forecast for · aurora forecast
How to read it
McMurdo Station, on Ross Island, is the largest base in Antarctica, reached from New Zealand. With no city lights or sunset for months on end, its year is one long day and one long night, with a few weeks of sunrises and sunsets between them.
McMurdo is so close to the South Pole that the Sun doesn't set at all from around October 24 to around February 19, circling the sky all day, and doesn't rise from around April 25 to around August 18.
Between those stretches, McMurdo's days change length faster than almost anywhere people live, by many minutes from one day to the next, and its golden light can last for hours with the Sun skimming the horizon.
Questions
What time is sunset in McMurdo today?
For months at a time there isn't one in McMurdo: the list on this page says so when the Sun stays up or stays down all day, and otherwise gives today's sunset on McMurdo's clock.
When is golden hour in McMurdo today?
The list gives McMurdo's morning and evening golden hours, when the Sun is low and its light warm and long-shadowed, and the blue hours just outside them, on McMurdo's clock.
When is the next full Moon in McMurdo?
The list gives the date and time on McMurdo's clock, with today's phase and when the Moon rises and sets there. It's full at the same moment everywhere on Earth, so what differs in McMurdo is only the clock and when the Moon is up.
Are there any alerts near McMurdo right now?
This page lists what's active near McMurdo as it's served, with who issued it, and says which sources it checked and when, and which it couldn't. It's no warning service: in an emergency in McMurdo, follow your local authorities.
What's the weather doing over McMurdo right now?
This page gives McMurdo's conditions now and its next day hour by hour, with the chance of rain or snow, from Open-Meteo. The globe shows the latest satellite clouds and rain radar over McMurdo: drag it to see what's coming.
What is the air quality in McMurdo today?
This page gives McMurdo's US AQI as it's served, with the EPA's word for its band. It comes from Copernicus's CAMS forecast through Open-Meteo: a model for the area around McMurdo rather than a monitor's reading, so a station nearby can differ.
Are the southern lights ever visible from McMurdo?
Often, on a clear, dark night in McMurdo when the Sun's active, away from the city's lights. This page says what NOAA's OVATION forecast gives for McMurdo over the next hour or so.
Sources
- astronomy-engine, Don Cross
- GOES-R Series GeoColor (GOES-East, GOES-West, GOES-19, GOES-18), NOAA / CIRA
- MTG GeoColour (Meteosat Third Generation, MTG-I1), EUMETSAT
- Himawari-9 AHI (Himawari), Japan Meteorological Agency
- Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI), NOAA/NESDIS
- NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS, Worldview), NASA EOSDIS
- RainViewer, RainViewer
- Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG, GPM IMERG Early Run), NASA
- Open-Meteo, Open-Meteo
- CAMS air quality forecasts (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), Copernicus / ECMWF
The same view as a link: livex.earth/?clouds=1&radar=1&imerg=1&sats=off&launches=0&aurora=0&storms=0&severe=0&fires=0&quakes=0&lightning=0&events=0&snow=0&tsunami=0&lat=-77.85&lon=166.67&mag=3&city=mcmurdo&imagery=live
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view | fixed · sunrel · orbit · moon · track |
track | what to follow: iss, tiangong, satgus (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), launch, sunrise, moonrise |
lat, lon | viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel) |
period, inc | orbit period (hours) and inclination (°) |
dist | viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic |
mag, rot | size and rotation (°) |
wait | seconds between redraws (default 60) |
time, speed | ISO start time; clock multiplier |
clouds, lights, grid, markers, label | 0 or 1 |
borders | Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and once zoomed in, the countries’ names and the states’ and provinces’ lines, off by default (key B) |
terminator | The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key Z) |
stars | 1, 0, or photo (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth) |
sats | all (Starlink + named), featured, or 0 |
aurora, storms, fires, quakes | 0 hides that layer (keys A H F E) |
buoys, buoy | Buoys on the globe, off by default (key Shift+B); buoy=46026 opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it. |
meteors | The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key Shift+M) |
iono | Ionosphere wash: tec electron content (GloTEC), drap HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or 0 (key Shift+I) |
lightning, events, snow | lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys L D I) |
sst | Sea temperature: temp, anomaly (El Niño, marine heatwaves; 1 means this), or 0 (key O) |
lst | Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): auto the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (1 means this), day, night, or 0 (key Shift+K) |
soil | Soil moisture (SMAP L4): surface the top 5 cm (1 means this), root the root zone to 1 m, or 0 (key Shift+W) |
chl | Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: 1 or 0 (key Shift+O; off by default) |
aerosol | Aerosols: aod VIIRS optical depth (1 means this), index the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or 0 (key Shift+Y; off by default) |
waves, wavesrc | Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: 1 or 0 (off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
currents, currentsrc | Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: 1 or 0 (off by default; key Q cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its latest.json |
coral, coralsrc | Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: 1 or 0 (key Shift+R; off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
ash | volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key Shift+A; off by default) |
aviation | Aviation hazards: SIGMETs worldwide (NOAA AWC) and US airport ground stops and delays (FAA) (key !; off by default) |
radar, smoke, tsunami | RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys R Y Shift+T) |
imagery | live GOES and MTG pictures by day, daily yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, painted neither; with live or daily, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key Shift+P; the older truecolor=0/1 still works) |
severe | Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key X) |
imerg | With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (R’s middle step turns it off) |
relief | terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key Shift+E); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief |
reliefscale | terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1) |
isslive | NASA ISS telemetry panel: track (while tracking the ISS), 1 (always) or 0 (key Shift+L) |
isscam | 1 opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°) |
firehours | show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12) |
launches | 0 hides launch mode (key U) |
bodies, bodyscale | Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size) |
fps | 1 shows the frame-rate display (key ~) |
feeds | 1 shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key Shift+U) |
signup | 1 opens the mailing list’s form (the mail button beside the share buttons) |
cloudsrc, satsrc | folders holding each latest.json |
