At an airfield/1.1 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaches/Rhode Island/Surf Beach
Surf Beach, Rhode Island
Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island56°
53°/45°
Light rain·
Feels like 56°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 65% around 7 AM.
Now. Surf Beach is 56° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Wednesday, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:53 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
83%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
56feels56
43%
14mph
Today
Oct 17
5345
92%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5541
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
5746
17mph
Tue
Oct 20
6048
16%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
5849
22mph
Thu
Oct 22
5848
26%
19mph
Fri
Oct 23
6049
20%
16mph
56°
53°45°
55°41°
57°46°
60°48°
58°49°
58°48°
60°49°
As of 2:00 AM in Surf Beach, Rhode Island.
Air quality
The air at Surf Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 22 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good23.5 mi
- Ozone23Good22 ppb23.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 3, good.
GoodModerate
- 3YesterdayOct 16
- 35TodayOct 17
- 36SunOct 18
- 33MonOct 19
- 30TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Surf Beach
0.20 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
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.20in
Visibility
How far you can see at Surf Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NNE 14°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
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
- Moderate
- Surf height
- Around 6 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 60s
- UV index
- Low
Surf zone forecast
Block Island RI, including Block Island. Issued 4:11 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Moderate |
| Surf height | Around 6 feet | 4 to 7 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 60s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Cloudy. Patchy fog | Mostly cloudy until 5 PM, then mostly sunny. Showers |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | In the lower 50s |
| Winds | Southwest winds around 20 mph | North winds 15 to 25 mph |
| Tides | High 2.7 ft, 11:53 AM | High 2.6 ft, 12:47 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 6 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 8 to 11 feet. Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 8 to 11 feet. Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs around 60. Breezy. Northeast winds around 25 mph
Beach
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Latitude
- 41.1744° N
- Longitude
- 71.5590° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Surf 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 FW8194FW8194
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/130 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NinigretNINR1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.4 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kingston 1 W54797
At a climate reference station/20.4 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/0.7 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Block IslandBIDR1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 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), 1.2 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 Surf 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, 15 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, 21 mi
Beaches near Surf Beach
- Ballards Beachunder 1 mi
- Baby Beachunder 1 mi
- Fred Benson Town Beachunder 1 mi
- Block Island State Beachunder 1 mi
- Pebbly Beachunder 1 mi
- Crescent Beach1 mi
- Scotch Beach1 mi
- Mosquito Beach2 mi