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In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/40 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hendricks Head Beach, Maine
Beach in Lincoln County, Maine48°
50°/37°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Now. Hendricks Head Beach is 48° and mostly clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
73%Humidity
21%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
48feels43
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
5037
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5330
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5634
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6233
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5635
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5532
partly cloudy day
Fri
Oct 23
5835
partly cloudy day
48°
50°37°
53°30°
56°34°
62°33°
56°35°
55°32°
58°35°
As of 2:00 AM in Hendricks Head Beach, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Hendricks Head Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Southwest Coast (ME), 29 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hendricks Head Beach
0.02 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
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at Hendricks Head 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 SE 143°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44007, 30.7 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44007, Portland
- Wave height
- 3.6 ft
- Period
- 7 s
- From
- SSE (153°)
- Swell
- 2.3 ft at 7 s from SSE
- Wind waves
- 2.6 ft at 3 s from NNW
- Water
- 55 °F
- Read
- Sat 1:50 AM
- Distance
- 30.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 1:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 7 s | SSE (153°) |
| Sat 12:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 7 s | SSE (149°) |
| Fri 11:50 PM | 4.3 ft | 7 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | SSE (158°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 4.9 ft | 7 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | SSE (151°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 7 s | SSE (155°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 7 s | SE (144°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 5.2 ft | 6 s | SSE (163°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 7 s | SSE (165°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 6.6 ft | 6 s | S (174°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 6.6 ft | 6 s | S (176°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 6.2 ft | 5 s | S (180°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 4.6 ft | - | SSW (192°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | SSW (192°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | S (185°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | S (190°) |
| 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°) |
Beach
- County
- Lincoln County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 43.8246° N
- Longitude
- 69.6869° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hendricks Head Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WiscassetIWI
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/69 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/20.1 mi away/138 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sheepscot River At North WhitefieldNWFM1
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.4 mi away/112 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Georgetown 1.4 EME-SG-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/73 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BathBTHM1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/1 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 Bath (BTHM1), 11.2 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 Hendricks Head Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Boothbay Harborcommunity, 4 mi
- Bathcity, 9 mi
- Wiscassetcommunity, 13 mi
- Brunswickcommunity, 15 mi
- Topshamcommunity, 15 mi
- Damariscottacommunity, 16 mi
- Newcastlecommunity, 17 mi
- Bowdoinhamcommunity, 17 mi
- Richmondcommunity, 19 mi
- Freeportcommunity, 21 mi
- Lisbon Fallscommunity, 22 mi
- Littlejohn Islandcommunity, 22 mi
Beaches near Hendricks Head Beach
- Cole Beachunder 1 mi
- South Beachunder 1 mi
- Sandy Beach2 mi
- Indian Beach3 mi
- Spring Cove Beach3 mi
- Sea Glass Beach3 mi
- East Beach3 mi
- Mile Beach4 mi