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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sunset Beach, Maine
Beach in Cumberland County, Maine48°
65°/39°
Light rain·
Feels like 46°·Light breeze 5 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 9 AM, the chance peaking at 80% around 10 AM.
Now. Sunset Beach is 48° and light rain at 7 AM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:38 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
84%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
48feels46
24%
Today
Oct 16
6539
98%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5139
26%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5331
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5733
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6135
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5938
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5535
partly cloudy day
48°
65°39°
51°39°
53°31°
57°33°
61°35°
59°38°
55°35°
As of 7:00 AM in Sunset Beach, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Sunset Beach
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Southwest Coast (ME), 1 mile off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone25Good28 ppb6.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sunset Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sunset Beach, the next 44 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 124°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44007, 9.5 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44007, Portland
- Wave height
- 2.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- S (174°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 10 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.3 ft at 4 s from S
- Water
- 55 °F
- Read
- Fri 7:20 AM
- Distance
- 9.5 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 7:20 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | S (174°) |
| 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°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 8 s | SE (142°) |
Beach
- County
- Cumberland County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 43.6524° N
- Longitude
- 70.2109° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sunset Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW8408FW8408
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/93 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/4.7 mi away/62 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Peaks Island 0.2 SME-CM-65
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/74 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Gray NWS WFOGYX
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/407 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 Gray NWS WFO (GYX), 16.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 14:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Maine
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sunset Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Portlandcity, 2 mi
- South Portlandcity, 3 mi
- Falmouthcommunity, 4 mi
- Falmouth Foresidecommunity, 6 mi
- Oak Hillcommunity, 7 mi
- Westbrookcity, 8 mi
- Cousins Islandcommunity, 8 mi
- Littlejohn Islandcommunity, 9 mi
- Cumberland Centercommunity, 10 mi
- Yarmouthcommunity, 10 mi
- Dunstancommunity, 11 mi
- Gorhamcommunity, 12 mi
Beaches near Sunset Beach
- Lobster Pound Beachunder 1 mi
- Seaglass Beachunder 1 mi
- Shell Beachunder 1 mi
- Clam Beachunder 1 mi
- Bathing Beachunder 1 mi
- Sandy Beachunder 1 mi
- Little Beachunder 1 mi
- West Shore Sandy Beachunder 1 mi