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Beaches/Massachusetts/Fire Station Beach
Fire Station Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Norfolk County, Massachusetts49°
69°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 47°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM (74%).
Now. Fire Station Beach is 49° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (86%). 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 9:47 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
74%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
49feels47
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
6944
95%
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
5143
86%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5333
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5838
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6042
14%
Wed
Oct 21
5844
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
5644
partly cloudy day
49°
69°44°
51°43°
53°33°
58°38°
60°42°
58°44°
56°44°
As of 5:00 AM in Fire Station Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Fire Station Beach
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Boston Metro (MA), 13 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 35TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fire Station Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fire Station Beach, the next 46 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.5 miles Fri 9 PM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ESE 105°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA, and the waves at buoy 44013, 17.1 mi away.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 2 to 5 feet
- Water temperature
- In the upper 50s
- UV index
- Low
Waves at buoy 44013, Boston
- Wave height
- 1.6 ft
- Period
- 3 s
- From
- SE (146°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 10 s from ENE
- Wind waves
- 2.0 ft at 3 s from SSE
- Water
- 58 °F
- Read
- Fri 3:50 AM
- Distance
- 17.1 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 3:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SE (146°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (156°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 2 s | S (179°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 8 s | E (101°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (87°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 10 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (92°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 5 s | NE (52°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (32°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | NE (35°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 5 s | NE (37°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 5 s | NNE (28°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 5 s | NE (35°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | NE (34°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NE (41°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | E (87°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (15°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NNW (348°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 3 s | NNW (337°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NW (315°) |
| Thu 7:20 AM | 3.9 ft | 4 s | NW (313°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 4 s | NW (317°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NW (317°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 4.3 ft | 4 s | NW (320°) |
Surf zone forecast
Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA, including Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop, Braintree, Milton, Quincy, and Weymouth. Issued 4:10 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | Moderate |
| Surf height | 2 to 5 feet | 3 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the upper 50s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Cloudy. Patchy fog. Showers | Mostly cloudy until 2 PM, then mostly sunny. A chance of showers |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | In the lower 50s |
| Winds | South winds 10 to 15 mph | Northwest winds around 20 mph |
| Tides | BostonLow 2.1 ft, 9:34 AMHigh 9.4 ft, 3:46 PM | BostonLow 2.4 ft, 10:24 AMHigh 9.1 ft, 4:37 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. West winds around 5 mph
- Monday
- Surf height around 2 feet. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds around 10 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 2 to 3 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 10 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Norfolk County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 42.2512° N
- Longitude
- 70.9601° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fire Station Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
QuincyMA004
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/131 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6013GW6013
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/54 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Weymouth 2.3 NMA-NF-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HinghamHINM3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/89 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 Hingham (HINM3), 2.5 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Massachusetts
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fire Station Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Quincycity, 3 mi
- Braintree Towncity, 3 mi
- Weymouth Towncity, 3 mi
- Hinghamcommunity, 4 mi
- Hullcommunity, 5 mi
- Miltoncommunity, 6 mi
- Randolph Towncity, 7 mi
- Holbrookcommunity, 8 mi
- Winthrop Towncity, 9 mi
- Bostoncity, 9 mi
- Abingtoncommunity, 9 mi
- Dedhamcommunity, 10 mi
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- George Lane Beachunder 1 mi
- Edgewater Drive Beach1 mi
- Post Island Beach1 mi