DoverDRSD1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Big Stone Beach, Delaware
Beach in Kent County, DelawareGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, northwest winds 20 to 25 kt and rough waters expected. For the Gale Watch, north winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and rough waters possible. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE and Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 2 AM 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.
60°
65°/59°
Overcast·
Feels like 60°·Light breeze 5 mph ESE
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Big Stone Beach until 6 PM Saturday. 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 tomorrow night, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 89% around 11 PM.
Now. Big Stone Beach is 60° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 59°, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (89%) and Saturday (96%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
80%Humidity
90%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
60feels60
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6559
27%
Fri
Oct 16
8159
89%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5648
96%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5841
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6044
27%
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
6447
19%
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
6449
10%
13mph
60°
65°59°
81°59°
56°48°
58°41°
60°44°
64°47°
64°49°
As of 10:00 PM in Big Stone Beach, Delaware.
Air quality
The air at Big Stone Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Kent County (DE), 15 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good12.7 mi
- Ozone19Good22 ppb12.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Stone Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Big Stone Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 60°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Kent County
- State
- Delaware
- Latitude
- 38.9943° N
- Longitude
- 75.3219° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Big Stone Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-95 and DE-896DEL17
Beside a road/9.6 mi away/79 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW5390EW5390
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/38 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Dover AFBDOV
At an airfield/12.1 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Slaughter Beach 0.9 NNWDE-SS-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/3 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DoverDRSD1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 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 Big Stone Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Slaughter Beachtown, 4 mi
- Bowerstown, 6 mi
- Fredericatown, 8 mi
- Milfordcity, 8 mi
- Magnoliatown, 10 mi
- Lincolncommunity, 10 mi
- Riverviewcommunity, 11 mi
- Houstontown, 11 mi
- Rising Sun-Lebanoncommunity, 12 mi
- Dover Base Housingcommunity, 12 mi
- Delaware Bayfeature, 12 mi
- Woodside Eastcommunity, 13 mi
Beaches near Big Stone Beach
- Slaughter Beach6 mi
- Bowers Beach6 mi
- North Bowers Beach Community Park6 mi
- Fowler Beach8 mi
- Pickering Beach11 mi
- Primehook Beach11 mi
- Broadkill Beach14 mi
- Old Inlet Beach14 mi