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In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/162 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/Massachusetts/Nelson Beach
Nelson Beach, Massachusetts
Beach in Plymouth County, Massachusetts* WHAT...Northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 3 to 5 feet. * WHERE...Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay. * WHEN...Until 2 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
62°
51°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 62°·Gentle breeze 8 mph W
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Nelson Beach until 2 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 60% around 7 AM.
Now. Nelson Beach is 62° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 42° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 58°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:47 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
90%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
62feels62
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
5140
80%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5337
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5740
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5743
10%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
5545
17mph
Thu
Oct 22
5544
16%
15mph
Fri
Oct 23
5844
17%
14mph
62°
51°40°
53°37°
57°40°
57°43°
55°45°
55°44°
58°44°
As of 12:00 AM in Nelson Beach, Massachusetts.
Air quality
The air at Nelson Beach
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, North Bristol-Plymouth (MA), 14 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good18.8 mi
- Ozone22Good28 ppb18.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 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 Nelson Beach
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.15in
- Last 3 days
- 0.31in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 48%
Visibility
How far you can see at Nelson Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NE 43°
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 Eastern Plymouth MA, and the waves at buoy 44013, 26.3 mi away.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Low
- Surf height
- 3 to 5 feet
- Water temperature
- In the upper 50s
- UV index
- Low
Waves at buoy 44013, Boston
- Wave height
- 2.6 ft
- Period
- 6 s
- From
- ESE (114°)
- Swell
- 1.6 ft at 6 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.0 ft at 3 s from W
- Water
- 58 °F
- Read
- Fri 11:50 PM
- Distance
- 26.3 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 11:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 6 s | ESE (114°) |
| Fri 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (111°) |
| Fri 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 6 s | ESE (108°) |
| Fri 7:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 7 s | E (101°) |
| Fri 6:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 5:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (149°) |
| Fri 4:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (137°) |
| Fri 3:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (140°) |
| Fri 2:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (127°) |
| Fri 1:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (132°) |
| Fri 12:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SE (143°) |
| Fri 11:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | SE (142°) |
| Fri 10:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SSE (156°) |
| Fri 9:50 AM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | SSE (148°) |
| Fri 8:50 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (147°) |
| Fri 7:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (146°) |
| Fri 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SE (144°) |
| Fri 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (159°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (155°) |
| 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°) |
Surf zone forecast
Eastern Plymouth MA, including Cohasset, Duxbury, Hingham, Kingston, Marshfield, Plymouth, and Scituate. Issued 4:11 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Low | High |
| Surf height | 3 to 5 feet | 3 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the upper 50s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Cloudy. Patchy fog. A chance of showers | Mostly cloudy until 4 PM, then mostly sunny. A chance of showers |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | In the lower 50s |
| Winds | Southwest winds around 15 mph | North winds 15 to 25 mph |
| Tides | Scituate HarborHigh 8.8 ft, 3:46 PMPlymouthHigh 9.6 ft, 3:54 PM | Scituate HarborLow 2.1 ft, 10:23 AMHigh 8.5 ft, 4:38 PMPlymouthLow 2.4 ft, 10:49 AMHigh 9.3 ft, 4:44 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 4 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds around 10 mph
- Monday
- Surf height 4 to 7 feet. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height 6 to 10 feet. Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 20 mph
Tide
Beach
- County
- Plymouth County
- State
- Massachusetts
- Latitude
- 41.9651° N
- Longitude
- 70.6695° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Nelson Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/148 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sagamore Rt 6MA037
Beside a road/14.7 mi away/129 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SandwichSANM3
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.9 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Plymouth 0.4 NNWMA-PL-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/119 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Umass Oranberry Experimental StnEWAM3
On a farm or research station/13.8 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Massachusetts
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Nelson Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Plymouthcommunity, 1 mi
- North Plymouthcommunity, 1 mi
- Kingstoncommunity, 3 mi
- South Duxburycommunity, 4 mi
- Duxburycommunity, 5 mi
- The Pinehillscommunity, 7 mi
- Green Harborcommunity, 7 mi
- Cedar Crestcommunity, 8 mi
- Marshfieldcommunity, 9 mi
- Ocean Bluff-Brant Rockcommunity, 10 mi
- North Pembrokecommunity, 11 mi
- White Island Shorescommunity, 12 mi