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At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandy Point Beach, Virginia
Beach in Westmoreland County, VirginiaGale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 2 to 4 ft. For the Gale Warning, north winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 2 to 5 ft expected. * WHERE...Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point MD to Smith Point VA, Tidal Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA, and Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, until 6 AM EDT Saturday. For the Gale Warning, from 6 AM Saturday to 6 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous waves which could capsize or damage vessels.
Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous conditions.
58°
58°/49°
Light rain·
Feels like 58°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NNW
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Sandy Point Beach until 6 AM tomorrow. 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 early this morning, from about 2 AM, the chance peaking at 85% around 7 AM.
Now. Sandy Point Beach is 58° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
100%Humidity
85%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
58feels58
69%
Today
Oct 17
5849
100%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6045
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6248
11%
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
6650
12%
15mph
Wed
Oct 21
6552
17%
16mph
Thu
Oct 22
6450
22%
15mph
Fri
Oct 23
6651
14%
58°
58°49°
60°45°
62°48°
66°50°
65°52°
64°50°
66°51°
As of 2:00 AM in Sandy Point Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Point Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 25 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 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy Point Beach
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.18in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Point Beach, the next 43 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 79°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Westmoreland County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.0712° N
- Longitude
- 76.5354° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sandy Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TappahannockXSA
At an airfield/24.4 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW6158CW6158
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.0 mi away/86 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hague 3.5 NEVA-WM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Warsaw 2NWWRWV2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 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 Sandy Point Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Heathsvillecommunity, 11 mi
- Warsawtown, 15 mi
- Montrosstown, 16 mi
- Tappahannocktown, 21 mi
- Lancastercommunity, 22 mi
- Kilmarnocktown, 27 mi
- Colonial Beachtown, 27 mi
- Irvingtontown, 29 mi
- Weemscommunity, 29 mi
- Urbannatown, 30 mi
- White Stonetown, 30 mi
- Saludacommunity, 32 mi
Beaches near Sandy Point Beach
- Ragged Point Beach6 mi
- Narrow Beach7 mi
- Cordreys Beach12 mi
- Marshalls Beach13 mi
- Fossil Beach19 mi
- Ginny Beach19 mi
- The Sands20 mi
- Wildwood Beach21 mi