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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/Massachusetts/Brant Beach
Brant Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Plymouth County, MassachusettsGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, south winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 5 feet expected. For the Gale Watch, northwest winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and seas 3 to 5 feet possible. * WHERE...Cape Cod Bay, Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 6 AM to 6 PM EDT Friday. For the Gale Watch, from Friday evening through Saturday evening. * 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.
46°
69°/40°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 45°·Light air 4 mph SSE
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Brant Beach until 8 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 this morning, from about 11 AM, the chance peaking at 79% around 12 PM.
Now. Brant Beach is 46° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (83%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:49 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
95%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
46feels45
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
6940
90%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5340
83%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5533
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5938
16%
Tue
Oct 20
6141
18%
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
5942
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
5841
12mph
46°
69°40°
53°40°
55°33°
59°38°
61°41°
59°42°
58°41°
As of 2:00 AM in Brant Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Brant Beach
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, South Bristol-Plymouth (MA), 9 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good18.4 mi
- Ozone27Good30 ppb4.2 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb18.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- 35TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Brant Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Brant Beach, the next 43 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 6 PM, under a mile for 8 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ESE 112°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44020, 29.4 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44020, Nantucket Sound
- Wave height
- 1.0 ft
- Period
- 3 s
- From
- SE (130°)
- Swell
- 0.3 ft at 6 s from E
- Wind waves
- 1.0 ft at 3 s from SE
- Water
- 61 °F
- Read
- Fri 1:20 AM
- Distance
- 29.4 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 1:20 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (130°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SE (127°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (114°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 4 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | NNE (21°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | NNE (30°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | NNE (15°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (8°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (5°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (12°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | N (359°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | N (1°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | N (350°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | N (352°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | N (350°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | NNW (328°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NW (321°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NNW (327°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | NNW (341°) |
| Thu 2:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 2 s | NW (318°) |
Beach
- County
- Plymouth County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 41.6282° N
- Longitude
- 70.8248° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Brant Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW0364EW0364
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/33 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/79 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Westport Rt 88MA038
Beside a road/14.7 mi away/5 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fairhaven 2.2 ESEMA-BR-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/14 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RochesterEFRM3
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/92 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 Rochester (EFRM3), 11.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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