Powissett Beach, Massachusetts

Beach in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

65° 69°/40°

Overcast· Feels like 65°·Gentle breeze 12 mph SSW

Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (73%).

Now. Powissett Beach is 65° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 12 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, with some cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 57°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:48 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 day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

2UV Low

22Air quality

91%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

2:00 PM

65feels65

Today

Oct 16

6940

95%

13mph

Sat

Oct 17

4939

19%

13mph

Sun

Oct 18

5130

Mon

Oct 19

5634

10%

Tue

Oct 20

5739

11%

Wed

Oct 21

5743

13mph

Thu

Oct 22

5642

20%

65°

69°40°

49°39°

51°30°

56°34°

57°39°

57°43°

56°42°

As of 2:00 PM in Powissett Beach, Massachusetts.

Air quality

The air at Powissett Beach

Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Norfolk (MA), 5 miles off.

22Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good11 mi
Ozone22Good23 ppb11 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-11 mi
Nitrogen dioxide4Good4 ppb11 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb11 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm11 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.

GoodModerate

27YesterdayOct 15
35TodayOct 16
30SatOct 17
30SunOct 18
35MonOct 19
35TueOct 20

Smoke, the next 43 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Powissett Beach

0.39 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.39in
Last 3 days: 0.39in

Visibility

How far you can see at Powissett Beach, the next 43 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 8 PM.

Beach

County: Norfolk County
State: Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.2342° N
Longitude: 71.2460° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Powissett Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station FW2089FW2089

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/164 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Norwood MemorialOWD

At an airfield/4.8 mi away/49 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

NewtonMA006

Beside a road/6.8 mi away/62 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Blue Hills Obs USCRNBHIM3

At a river or reservoir gauge/6.9 mi away/620 ft/- ft from here