ConcordMA005
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/187 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Beaches/Massachusetts/Main Beach
Main Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Middlesex County, Massachusetts59°
50°/38°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 59°·Gentle breeze 8 mph W
Now. Main Beach is 59° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 40° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:48 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
75%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
59feels59
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
5038
12%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5429
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5932
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6135
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5639
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
5637
10%
Fri
Oct 23
5938
12%
59°
50°38°
54°29°
59°32°
61°35°
56°39°
56°37°
59°38°
As of 12:00 AM in Main Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Main Beach
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, West Middlesex (MA), 6 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good13.9 mi
- Ozone23Good22 ppb12.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-15.2 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide4Good4 ppb13.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide1Good1.2 ppb13.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm15.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 16
- 30TodayOct 17
- 30SunOct 18
- 35MonOct 19
- 35TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Main Beach
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.34in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 92%
Visibility
How far you can see at Main 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
- Middlesex County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 42.4379° N
- Longitude
- 71.3356° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Main Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW4318GW4318
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/139 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/3.3 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cambridge Res., Met. Station, Near Lexington422518071162501
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.4 mi away/191 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Concord 0.2 SSEMA-MD-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/179 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jamacia PlainJPBM3
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/102 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 Massachusetts
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Main Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hanscom AFBcommunity, 3 mi
- West Concordcommunity, 3 mi
- Lexingtoncommunity, 6 mi
- Maynardcommunity, 6 mi
- Walthamcity, 6 mi
- Cochituatecommunity, 8 mi
- Burlingtoncommunity, 8 mi
- Pinehurstcommunity, 9 mi
- Arlingtoncommunity, 9 mi
- Belmontcommunity, 9 mi
- Watertown Towncity, 9 mi
- Nashoba Valleyski area, 9 mi
Beaches near Main Beach
- Red Cross Beachunder 1 mi
- Nutting Lake Beach7 mi
- Saxonville Beach8 mi
- Wayland Town Beach8 mi
- Stow Town Beach9 mi
- Long Lake Beach9 mi
- Heart Pond Beach9 mi
- Shannon Beach10 mi