Beside a road/4.7 mi away/66 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bethany Beach, Delaware
Beach in Sussex County, DelawareGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, west winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 6 ft expected. For the Gale Watch, north winds 25 to 30 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and seas 4 to 6 ft possible. * WHERE...Portions of Atlantic coastal waters. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 3 PM this afternoon to 6 AM EDT Saturday. For the Gale Watch, from Saturday morning through Saturday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Strong winds can cause hazardous seas 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 seas.
64°
80°/60°
Light rain·
Feels like 64°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Bethany Beach until 6 PM 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 late tonight, from about 4 AM (66%).
Now. Bethany Beach is 64° and light rain at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (92%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
95%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
64feels64
24%
Today
Oct 16
8060
78%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5748
92%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5943
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6146
28%
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
6448
21%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6450
14%
16mph
Thu
Oct 22
6351
14%
13mph
64°
80°60°
57°48°
59°43°
61°46°
64°48°
64°50°
63°51°
As of 4:00 AM in Bethany Beach, Delaware.
Air quality
The air at Bethany Beach
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Sussex County (DE), 21 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bethany 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 Bethany Beach, the next 41 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 86°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Sussex County
- State
- Delaware
- Latitude
- 38.5418° N
- Longitude
- 75.0538° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bethany Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW4169EW4169
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LewesNDBC-LWSD1
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/19.4 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ocean View 0.9 WSWDE-SS-52
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LewesLEWD1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/3 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 Delaware
14 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Bethany Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- South Bethanytown, 2 mi
- Ocean Viewtown, 3 mi
- Millvilletown, 4 mi
- Fenwick Islandtown, 6 mi
- Indian River Bayfeature, 7 mi
- Long Neckcommunity, 8 mi
- Frankfordtown, 10 mi
- Dagsborotown, 10 mi
- Selbyvilletown, 11 mi
- Dewey Beachtown, 11 mi
- Rehoboth Beachcity, 12 mi
- Henlopen Acrestown, 13 mi
Beaches near Bethany Beach
- Fenwick Beach5 mi
- Cape Windsor6 mi
- Bayside Beach7 mi
- Indian Beach10 mi
- Joy Beach10 mi
- Rehoboth Beach12 mi
- Whiskey Beach14 mi
- Lewes Public Beach17 mi