DahlgrenNDBC-NCDV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fossil Beach, Virginia
Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia62°
57°/48°
Rain·
Feels like 62°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NNW
Now. Fossil Beach is 62° and rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:26 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
-UV
23Air quality
94%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
62feels62
17mph
Today
Oct 17
5748
overcast
Sun
Oct 18
5944
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6146
11%
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6649
10%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6451
15%
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
6350
19%
14mph
Fri
Oct 23
6651
13%
62°
57°48°
59°44°
61°46°
66°49°
64°51°
63°50°
66°51°
As of 3:00 AM in Fossil Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Fossil Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 15 miles off.
23Good
- Ozone23Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles.
GoodModerate
- 11TodayOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
- 28MonOct 19
- 22TueOct 20
- 22WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fossil Beach
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 0.48in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 73%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fossil Beach, the next 42 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NNE 27°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Westmoreland County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.1669° N
- Longitude
- 76.8546° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fossil Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TappahannockXSA
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2888FW2888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/212 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stratford 0.5 NEVA-WM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/160 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Warsaw 2NWWRWV2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/143 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fossil Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Montrosstown, 5 mi
- Colonial Beachtown, 9 mi
- Dahlgren Centercommunity, 15 mi
- Warsawtown, 15 mi
- Dahlgrencommunity, 16 mi
- Tappahannocktown, 17 mi
- Port Royaltown, 18 mi
- King Georgecommunity, 20 mi
- Fairview Beachcommunity, 24 mi
- Passapatanzycommunity, 27 mi
- Heathsvillecommunity, 27 mi
- Bowling Greentown, 28 mi
Beaches near Fossil Beach
- The Sands1 mi
- Narrow Beach12 mi
- Ragged Point Beach13 mi
- Sandy Point Beach19 mi
- Wildwood Beach26 mi
- Aquia Landing Beach Park29 mi
- Cordreys Beach30 mi
- Marshalls Beach31 mi