At an airfield/1.0 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaches/Rhode Island/Baby Beach
Baby Beach, Rhode Island
Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island56°
68°/50°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 56°·Gentle breeze 13 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 12 PM (55%).
Now. Baby Beach is 56° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southeast at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:54 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
69%Humidity
75%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
56feels56
13mph
Today
Oct 16
6850
84%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5445
91%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5540
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
5846
16%
17mph
Tue
Oct 20
6048
22%
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
5949
18mph
Thu
Oct 22
5747
11%
18mph
56°
68°50°
54°45°
55°40°
58°46°
60°48°
59°49°
57°47°
As of 4:00 AM in Baby Beach, Rhode Island.
Air quality
The air at Baby Beach
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 21 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone33Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
- 11SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Baby Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Baby Beach, the next 41 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 5 PM, under a mile for 5 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NE 38°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Block Island RI.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 2 to 3 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 60s
- UV index
- Moderate
Surf zone forecast
Block Island RI, including Block Island. Issued 4:09 PM EDT Thu Oct 15.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 2 to 3 feet | 3 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 60s | - |
| UV index | Moderate | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | Low |
| Weather | Sunny | Cloudy. Patchy fog. Showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms |
| High temperature | In the lower 60s | In the upper 60s |
| Winds | East winds around 10 mph | South winds 15 to 20 mph |
| Tides | High 2.9 ft, 11:08 AMLow 0.6 ft, 5:06 PM | High 2.7 ft, 11:53 AM |
- Saturday
- Surf height 5 to 7 feet. Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Cooler. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds around 20 mph
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 5 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds around 15 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds around 15 mph
Beach
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Latitude
- 41.1762° N
- Longitude
- 71.5624° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Baby Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW8194FW8194
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/130 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NinigretNINR1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.3 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kingston 1 W54797
At a climate reference station/20.3 mi away/106 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Block Island 0.9 ERI-WS-56
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Block IslandBIDR1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/3 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 Block Island (BIDR1), 1.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Rhode Island
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Baby Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Block Islandfeature, 1 mi
- Point Judithfeature, 14 mi
- Quonochontaugcommunity, 14 mi
- Charlestowncommunity, 14 mi
- Weekapaugcommunity, 16 mi
- Misquamicutcommunity, 17 mi
- Watch Hillcommunity, 18 mi
- Bradfordcommunity, 18 mi
- Narragansett Piercommunity, 18 mi
- Wakefield-Peace Dalecommunity, 19 mi
- Westerlytown, 20 mi
- Carolinacommunity, 20 mi
Beaches near Baby Beach
- Surf Beachunder 1 mi
- Fred Benson Town Beachunder 1 mi
- Ballards Beachunder 1 mi
- Block Island State Beachunder 1 mi
- Pebbly Beachunder 1 mi
- Crescent Beach1 mi
- Scotch Beach1 mi
- Mosquito Beach1 mi