Solomons IslandNDBC-SLIM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Drum Point Beach, Maryland
Beach in Calvert County, Maryland63°
57°/51°
Light rain·
Feels like 63°·Gentle breeze 11 mph N
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 88% around 2 AM.
Now. Drum Point Beach is 63° and light rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Wednesday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:24 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
75%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
63feels63
77%
Today
Oct 17
5751
99%
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
5947
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6150
10%
18mph
Tue
Oct 20
6652
11%
19mph
Wed
Oct 21
6454
17%
20mph
Thu
Oct 22
6352
21%
19mph
Fri
Oct 23
6554
13%
14mph
63°
57°51°
59°47°
61°50°
66°52°
64°54°
63°52°
65°54°
As of 12:00 AM in Drum Point Beach, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Drum Point Beach
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 20 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-23.9 mi
- Ozone27Good33 ppb18.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.2 ppb23.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 16
- 11TodayOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
- 28MonOct 19
- 22TueOct 20
- 22WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Drum Point Beach
0.62 in in the last 24 hours, 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.62in
- Last 3 days
- 0.67in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 93%
Visibility
How far you can see at Drum Point Beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing S 178°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Calvert County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 38.3206° N
- Longitude
- 76.4231° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Drum Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/2.5 mi away/39 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MD-4 at PatuxentMD045
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW6344CW6344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/96 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
SolomonsSOLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lusby 1.4 SEMD-CV-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/114 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Maryland
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Drum Point Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Drum Pointcommunity, 1 mi
- Solomonscommunity, 2 mi
- Chesapeake Ranch Estatescommunity, 3 mi
- Lusbycommunity, 3 mi
- Californiacommunity, 5 mi
- Lexington Parkcommunity, 5 mi
- Wildewoodcommunity, 7 mi
- Callawaycommunity, 8 mi
- Broomes Islandcommunity, 10 mi
- Long Beachcommunity, 10 mi
- Calvert Beachcommunity, 11 mi
- Fishing Creekcommunity, 11 mi
Beaches near Drum Point Beach
- Seahorse Beach1 mi
- Cedar Cove Community Beach Recreation Area4 mi
- Cove Point Beach5 mi
- Elms Beach Park9 mi
- Long Beach10 mi
- Matoaka Beach11 mi
- Lane Beach11 mi
- Piney Point Beach14 mi