Citizen station KB1DML-5KB1DML-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/Massachusetts/Clark Beach
Clark Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Essex County, Massachusetts* WHAT...Northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 5 feet. * WHERE...Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay. * WHEN...Until 2 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
53°
50°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 53°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Clark Beach until 2 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Clark Beach is 53° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 40° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:45 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 11 hours 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
73%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
53feels53
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
5040
11%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5331
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5735
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5938
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5541
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
5539
11%
Fri
Oct 23
5840
11%
53°
50°40°
53°31°
57°35°
59°38°
55°41°
55°39°
58°40°
As of 2:00 AM in Clark Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Clark Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Essex (MA), 9 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good18.1 mi
- Ozone19Good22 ppb18.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.7 ppb18.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 16
- 30TodayOct 17
- 30SunOct 18
- 35MonOct 19
- 35TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Clark Beach
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.29in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
Visibility
How far you can see at Clark Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 68°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Eastern Essex MA, and the waves at buoy 44013, 25.8 mi away.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 4 to 6 feet
- Water temperature
- In the upper 50s
- UV index
- Low
Waves at buoy 44013, Boston
- Wave height
- 2.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- WNW (282°)
- Swell
- 1.0 ft at 7 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.0 ft at 4 s from WNW
- Water
- 58 °F
- Read
- Sat 1:50 AM
- Distance
- 25.8 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 1:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | WNW (282°) |
| Sat 12:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | W (268°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | ESE (114°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (111°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (108°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 7 s | E (101°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (149°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (137°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (140°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (127°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (132°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SE (143°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | SE (142°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SSE (156°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (146°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (144°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (159°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (155°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SE (146°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (156°) |
Surf zone forecast
Eastern Essex MA, including Beverly, Gloucester, and Newburyport. Issued 4:11 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 4 to 6 feet | 4 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the upper 50s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Cloudy. Patchy fog. A slight chance of showers | Mostly cloudy until 2 PM, then mostly sunny |
| High temperature | In the mid 60s | Around 50 |
| Winds | Southwest winds around 15 mph | North winds 15 to 25 mph |
| Tides | NewburyportHigh 8.2 ft, 4:07 PMGloucester HarborHigh 8.7 ft, 3:41 PM | NewburyportLow 1.7 ft, 11:03 AMHigh 8.0 ft, 4:58 PMGloucester HarborLow 2.1 ft, 10:17 AMHigh 8.4 ft, 4:33 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds around 5 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 4 to 7 feet. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 8 to 9 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 15 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Essex County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 42.7044° N
- Longitude
- 70.7944° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Clark Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
GloucesterMA010
Beside a road/8.3 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Byfield Precipitation At Byfield424510070564401
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.4 mi away/29 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Essex 1.4 SMA-ES-57
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/73 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Beverly 7NWBEVM3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/86 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 Beverly 7NW (BEVM3), 8.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Massachusetts
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Clark Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ipswichcommunity, 3 mi
- Rowleycommunity, 4 mi
- Essexcommunity, 5 mi
- Gloucestercity, 9 mi
- Newburyportcity, 9 mi
- Topsfieldcommunity, 9 mi
- Rockportcommunity, 10 mi
- Salisburycommunity, 10 mi
- Boxfordcommunity, 10 mi
- Beverlycity, 11 mi
- Danverscommunity, 12 mi
- Amesbury Towncity, 13 mi
Beaches near Clark Beach
- Mothers Beachunder 1 mi
- Steep Hill Beachunder 1 mi
- Crane Beach2 mi
- The Knobbs2 mi
- Stoney Point3 mi
- Plum Island Beach5 mi
- Coffins Beach5 mi
- Sandy Beach6 mi