Rachel Carson RAWSRCWM1
A remote fire weather station/1.5 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Beach, Maine
Beach in York County, Maine* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 6 ft expected. * WHERE...Coastal Waters from Stonington, ME to Port Clyde, ME out 25 NM, Coastal Waters from Port Clyde, ME to Cape Elizabeth, ME out 25 NM and Coastal Waters from Cape Elizabeth, ME to Merrimack River, MA out 25 NM. * WHEN...From 8 AM this morning to midnight EDT Saturday night. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
50°
67°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 47°·Light breeze 6 mph S
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Crescent Beach until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 88% around 10 AM.
Now. Crescent Beach is 50° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:41 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 day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
91%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
50feels47
27%
Today
Oct 16
6741
99%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5241
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
5431
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5735
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6138
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5941
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5538
partly cloudy day
50°
67°41°
52°41°
54°31°
57°35°
61°38°
59°41°
55°38°
As of 8:00 AM in Crescent Beach, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Crescent Beach
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Coastal Rockingham County (NH), 26 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good17.3 mi
- Ozone16Good28 ppb17.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good17.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide1Good1.4 ppb17.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Crescent Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.48in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Crescent Beach, the next 43 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 76°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44007, 26.7 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44007, Portland
- Wave height
- 3.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- S (184°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 11 s from SSE
- Wind waves
- 3.3 ft at 4 s from S
- Water
- 55 °F
- Read
- Fri 8:20 AM
- Distance
- 26.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 8:20 AM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | S (184°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | S (176°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (165°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | S (173°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SSE (152°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 12 s | E (99°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SE (128°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | ESE (123°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SE (127°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | ESE (113°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SE (146°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 7 s | SE (133°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 2 s | NNW (348°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NNW (327°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (118°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (6°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (3°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (0°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (359°) |
Beach
- County
- York County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 43.2946° N
- Longitude
- 70.5680° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Crescent Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station KC1UIX-13KC1UIX-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/243 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rt. 202 EB Alfred102699
Beside a road/14.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wells 2.3 SWME-YK-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/69 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cape NeddickNEDM1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/161 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 Cape Neddick (NEDM1), 5.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Maine
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Crescent Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Kennebunkcommunity, 7 mi
- Kennebunkportcommunity, 7 mi
- North Berwickcommunity, 8 mi
- West Kennebunkcommunity, 9 mi
- Cape Neddickcommunity, 9 mi
- York Harborcommunity, 11 mi
- South Berwickcommunity, 13 mi
- Sanfordcity, 14 mi
- Biddefordcity, 14 mi
- Alfredcommunity, 15 mi
- Berwickcommunity, 15 mi
- Kittery Pointcommunity, 16 mi
Beaches near Crescent Beach
- Wells Beachunder 1 mi
- Moody Beach1 mi
- Drakes Island Beach2 mi
- Footbridge Beach2 mi
- Laudholm Beach3 mi
- Ogunquit Beach3 mi
- Little Beach4 mi
- Crescent Surf4 mi