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Onset Beach, Massachusetts

Beach in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Air quality

The air at Onset Beach

Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Bristol-Plymouth (MA), 17 miles off.

24Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
  • Ozone24Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 46, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Onset Beach

None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.09in

Visibility

How far you can see at Onset Beach, the next 46 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 7 PM, under a mile for 6 hours.

FriSat
Onset Beach from its sand, nowLooking SSW from the sand at 11:32 PM, night, clear, waves about 0.6 ft every 9 s.S190200210Facing SSW 193°Wind 3 mphfrom SE, onshore
Looking SSW from the sand at 11:32 PM, night, clear, waves about 0.6 ft every 9 s.
NESW

Facing SSW 193°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44020, 25.6 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44020, Nantucket Sound

Wave height
0.7 ft
Period
-
From
-
Water
61 °F
Read
Thu 10:50 PM
Distance
25.6 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.

Wave height at buoy 44020, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.7 ft to 3.0 ft; 0.7 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ft6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PM0.7 ftWave height at buoy 44020, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.7 ft to 3.0 ft; 0.7 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ftNoonThuNoon0.7 ft
Significant wave height from 0.7 ft to 3.0 ft; 0.7 ft at Thu 10:50 PM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Thu 10:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 9:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 8:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 7:50 PM1.0 ft3 sESE (114°)
Thu 6:50 PM1.0 ft4 sE (96°)
Thu 5:50 PM1.0 ft3 sNNE (21°)
Thu 4:50 PM1.6 ft3 sNNE (30°)
Thu 3:50 PM1.6 ft3 sNNE (15°)
Thu 2:50 PM2.0 ft3 sN (8°)
Thu 1:50 PM2.0 ft3 sN (5°)
Thu 12:50 PM2.6 ft4 sNNE (12°)
Thu 11:50 AM2.6 ft4 sN (359°)
Thu 10:50 AM2.6 ft4 sN (1°)
Thu 9:50 AM3.0 ft4 sN (350°)
Thu 8:50 AM2.6 ft4 sN (352°)
Thu 7:50 AM2.6 ft4 sN (350°)
Thu 6:50 AM2.0 ft3 sNNW (328°)
Thu 5:50 AM1.3 ft3 sNW (321°)
Thu 4:50 AM1.3 ft3 sNNW (327°)
Thu 3:50 AM1.0 ft3 sNNW (341°)
Thu 2:50 AM1.0 ft2 sNW (318°)
Thu 1:50 AM1.0 ft2 sW (268°)
Thu 12:50 AM1.0 ft2 sWNW (285°)
Wed 11:50 PM1.0 ft2 sWNW (289°)

Beach

County
Plymouth County
State
Massachusetts
Latitude
41.7422° N
Longitude
70.6545° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Onset Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station EW8080EW8080

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/46 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Bourne - Wings NeckWNGM3

At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Sagamore Rt 6MA037

Beside a road/4.6 mi away/129 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Otis ANGBFMH

At an airfield/9.0 mi away/131 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Buzzards Bay 1.3 NMA-BA-104

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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