Citizen station EW8080EW8080
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/46 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/Massachusetts/Onset Beach
Onset Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Plymouth County, Massachusetts59°
52°/40°
Light rain·
Feels like 59°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 6 AM (50%).
Now. Onset Beach is 59° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 43° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:48 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 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
79%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
59feels59
12%
Today
Oct 17
5240
78%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5437
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5840
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
5844
13%
15mph
Wed
Oct 21
5645
19mph
Thu
Oct 22
5744
20%
16mph
Fri
Oct 23
5944
20%
14mph
59°
52°40°
54°37°
58°40°
58°44°
56°45°
57°44°
59°44°
As of 2:00 AM in Onset Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Onset Beach
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, South Bristol-Plymouth (MA), 17 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone27Good24 ppb14.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 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 Onset Beach
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.26in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 81%
Visibility
How far you can see at Onset Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSW 193°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44020, 25.6 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44020, Nantucket Sound
- Wave height
- 1.3 ft
- Period
- 3 s
- From
- WSW (251°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 5 s from E
- Wind waves
- 1.3 ft at 3 s from WSW
- Water
- 62 °F
- Read
- Sat 1:50 AM
- Distance
- 25.6 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 | 1.3 ft | 3 s | WSW (251°) |
| Sat 12:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | WSW (245°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SW (227°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | SW (236°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | WSW (250°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | WSW (242°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | WSW (238°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | WSW (241°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | WSW (238°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSW (207°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | S (185°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | S (174°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SE (146°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | SSE (153°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 2.3 ft | - | SSE (153°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (131°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (141°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | SE (134°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (151°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (156°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (164°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (153°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SE (138°) |
Beach
- County
- Plymouth County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 41.7422° N
- Longitude
- 70.6545° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Onset Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Bourne - Wings NeckWNGM3
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sagamore Rt 6MA037
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/129 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Otis ANGBFMH
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/131 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Umass Oranberry Experimental StnEWAM3
On a farm or research station/1.8 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Buzzards Bay 1.3 NMA-BA-104
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Massachusetts
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Onset Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Onsetcommunity, under 1 mi
- Buzzards Baycommunity, 2 mi
- Bournecommunity, 2 mi
- Monument Beachcommunity, 3 mi
- Wareham Centercommunity, 4 mi
- White Island Shorescommunity, 4 mi
- Weweanticcommunity, 4 mi
- Pocassetcommunity, 4 mi
- Marion Centercommunity, 6 mi
- West Warehamcommunity, 6 mi
- Sagamorecommunity, 7 mi
- North Falmouthcommunity, 7 mi