TOLLAND - I84WB - East of Old Ca CT US CTDOTCT034
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/661 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/Connecticut/Sandy Beach
Sandy Beach, Connecticut
Beach in Connecticut56°
51°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Now. Sandy Beach is 56° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 41° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 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 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
72%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
56feels56
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
5142
15%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5531
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6034
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6439
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5942
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
5938
partly cloudy day
Fri
Oct 23
6241
10%
56°
51°42°
55°31°
60°34°
64°39°
59°42°
59°38°
62°41°
As of 12:00 AM in Sandy Beach, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Beach
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Stafford (CT), 3 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-16.7 mi
- Ozone22Good22 ppb16.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-16.7 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.5 ppb16.7 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb17.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- 11TodayOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 22MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy Beach
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.55in
- Last 3 days
- 0.55in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.9321° N
- Longitude
- 72.3693° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sandy Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW3147GW3147
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/923 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/180 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Natchaug River 2 SW Mansfield Hollow LkMFDC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/171 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crystal Lake 1.0 ECT-TL-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/724 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
StafordvilleSFVC3
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/709 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 Stafordville (SFVC3), 7.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 05:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Connecticut
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sandy Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Crystal Lakecommunity, under 1 mi
- Stafford Springscommunity, 4 mi
- Somerscommunity, 6 mi
- Rockvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Broad Brookcommunity, 9 mi
- Lake Chaffeecommunity, 9 mi
- Hazardvillecommunity, 9 mi
- Southwood Acrescommunity, 11 mi
- Storrscommunity, 11 mi
- Sherwood Manorcommunity, 12 mi
- Coventry Lakecommunity, 12 mi
- South Coventrycommunity, 12 mi
Beaches near Sandy Beach
- Jimmy Ledges6 mi
- Halls Pond Beach6 mi
- Staffordville Beach7 mi
- Lisicke Beach10 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach19 mi
- Babbs Beach21 mi
- Jones Beach24 mi
- Town Beach Preserve29 mi