At an airfield/3.2 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaches/North Carolina/Bugsy Beach
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 3 AM, the chance peaking at 75% around 9 AM.
Now. Bugsy Beach is 68° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%). Rain is possible Sunday (38%) and Monday (36%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bugsy Beach, North Carolina.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 52 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing W 277°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The waves at buoy 44056, 23.5 mi away.
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.
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12:00 AM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NE (41°) |
| Thu 11:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 7 s | NE (42°) |
| Thu 10:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (45°) |
| Thu 9:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (46°) |
| Thu 8:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NE (34°) |
| Thu 7:00 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 6:30 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (29°) |
| Thu 5:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 4:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 3:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NNE (14°) |
| Thu 2:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (13°) |
| Thu 1:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 4 s | NNE (23°) |
| Thu 12:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 11:30 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (7°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (92°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 8:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (88°) |
| Thu 7:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 6:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (103°) |
| Thu 5:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (94°) |
| Thu 4:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (77°) |
| Thu 3:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (103°) |
| Thu 2:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | E (90°) |
| Thu 1:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (104°) |
The 6 instruments nearest Bugsy Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.2 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW3040FW3040
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.7 mi away/47 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Tidewater #1S2008
At a soil climate station/37.8 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Elizabeth City 7.0 SSENC-PS-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waste Treatmt PlantEZCN7
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.