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At an airfield/5.9 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Riverside Beach, Virginia
Beach in Newport News city, VirginiaGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, north winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 2 to 3 ft expected. For the Gale Watch, north winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 2 to 4 ft possible. * WHERE...Rappahannock River from Urbanna to Windmill Point, York River and James River from Jamestown to the James River Bridge. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 10 PM this evening to 6 PM EDT Saturday. For the Gale Watch, from Saturday evening through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Strong winds can cause hazardous waves which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should consider altering plans to avoid possible hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for severe wind and waves.
67°
86°/64°
Overcast·
Feels like 67°·Light air 3 mph S
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Riverside Beach until 7 AM Sunday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 75% around 9 AM.
Now. Riverside Beach is 67° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
51Air quality
90%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
67feels67
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8664
70%
14mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6052
94%
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6148
23%
20mph
Mon
Oct 19
6451
26%
18mph
Tue
Oct 20
6752
17%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6854
15%
16mph
Thu
Oct 22
6754
15%
14mph
67°
86°64°
60°52°
61°48°
64°51°
67°52°
68°54°
67°54°
As of 4:00 AM in Riverside Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Riverside Beach
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 9 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
- Ozone22Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)23Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 55YesterdayOct 15
- 53TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Riverside 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 Riverside Beach, the next 41 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SW 218°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- City
- Newport News city
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 37.0466° N
- Longitude
- 76.4988° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Riverside Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Dominion Terminal AssociatesNDBC-DOMV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW3454EW3454
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cape Charles 5 ENE03739
At a climate reference station/36.0 mi away/29 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Newport News 1.8 SEVA-NNC-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/94 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NorfolkNFKV2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.3 mi away/30 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 Norfolk (NFKV2), 19.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Riverside Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Newport Newscity, 3 mi
- Bethel Manorcommunity, 5 mi
- Carrolltoncommunity, 7 mi
- Hamptoncity, 7 mi
- Smithfieldtown, 8 mi
- Poquosoncity, 9 mi
- Benns Churchcommunity, 9 mi
- Rushmerecommunity, 10 mi
- Yorktowncommunity, 13 mi
- Gloucester Pointcommunity, 16 mi
- Portsmouthcity, 17 mi
- Norfolkcity, 18 mi
Beaches near Riverside Beach
- Huntington Beach3 mi
- Outlook Beach11 mi
- Grandview Beach12 mi
- Willoughby Beach13 mi
- Yorktown Beach13 mi
- Sarah Constant Beach Park15 mi
- Ocean View Beach Park15 mi
- Kingsmill Beach15 mi