Coastal Rhode Island AT Watch Hill CoveWHLR1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/Rhode Island/East Beach
East Beach, Rhode Island
Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island51°
52°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Now. East Beach is 51° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 44° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:54 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
5Air quality
53%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
2:00 PM
51feels51
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5241
25%
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
5735
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6040
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6242
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
5843
15mph
Thu
Oct 22
6042
21%
13mph
Fri
Oct 23
6043
17%
12mph
51°
52°41°
57°35°
60°40°
62°42°
58°43°
60°42°
60°43°
As of 2:00 PM in East Beach, Rhode Island.
Air quality
The air at East Beach
Index 5, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, New London-Groton (CT), 10 miles off.
5Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)5Good12.8 mi
- Ozone-20 ppb22 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good12.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 16
- 11TodayOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 22MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at East Beach
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.34 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.19in
- Last 3 days
- 0.34in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 56%
Visibility
How far you can see at East Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Mon 8 AM, lowest 9 miles Mon 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSE 157°
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 Washington RI.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 4 to 6 feet
- Water temperature
- In the lower 60s
- UV index
- Low
Surf zone forecast
Washington RI, including Narragansett, Charlestown, and Westerly. Issued 4:11 AM EDT Sat Oct 17.
| Forecast | Today | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Low |
| Surf height | 4 to 6 feet | 3 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 60s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Mostly cloudy until 4 PM, then mostly sunny. Showers likely | Sunny |
| High temperature | Around 50 | In the mid 50s |
| Winds | North winds around 15 mph | Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph |
| Tides | Watch Hill PointLow 0.6 ft, 6:59 AMHigh 2.2 ft, 1:54 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)Low 0.8 ft, 6:02 AMHigh 2.8 ft, 1:01 PMNarragansett PierHigh 2.7 ft, 1:02 PM | Watch Hill PointLow 0.7 ft, 7:59 AMHigh 2.2 ft, 2:44 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)Low 0.9 ft, 7:03 AMHigh 2.7 ft, 1:55 PMNarragansett PierLow 0.9 ft, 6:54 AMHigh 2.7 ft, 1:52 PM |
- Monday
- Surf height 10 to 14 feet. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 9 to 12 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Wednesday
- Surf height 8 to 11 feet. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Latitude
- 41.3150° N
- Longitude
- 71.8367° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest East Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WesterlyWST
At an airfield/3.1 mi away/79 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW8163DW8163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/89 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Kingston 1 W54797
At a climate reference station/18.7 mi away/106 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Westerly 3.5 SRI-WS-92
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Block IslandBIDR1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.7 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), 17.7 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Rhode Island
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near East Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Watch Hillcommunity, 1 mi
- Misquamicutcommunity, 1 mi
- Weekapaugcommunity, 4 mi
- Westerlytown, 4 mi
- Quonochontaugcommunity, 7 mi
- Bradfordcommunity, 7 mi
- Ashawaycommunity, 8 mi
- Hopkintoncommunity, 11 mi
- Charlestowncommunity, 12 mi
- Carolinacommunity, 14 mi
- Hope Valleycommunity, 15 mi
- Wyomingcommunity, 16 mi