Beside a road/1.6 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Main Beach, Maryland
Beach in St. Mary's County, Maryland61°
83°/60°
Overcast·
Feels like 61°·Light air 3 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 69% around 3 AM.
Now. Main Beach is 61° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (93%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
99%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
61feels61
25%
Today
Oct 16
8360
85%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5749
93%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5843
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6145
18%
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
6548
17%
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
6551
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
6450
11%
61°
83°60°
57°49°
58°43°
61°45°
65°48°
65°51°
64°50°
As of 2:00 AM in Main Beach, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Main Beach
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 10 miles off.
16Good
- Ozone16Good16 ppb4.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- 33TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Main Beach
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
Visibility
How far you can see at Main Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 100°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- St. Mary's County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 38.4911° N
- Longitude
- 76.6730° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Main Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station DW0282DW0282
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/138 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mcintosh Run Near Leonardtown01661350
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Leonardtown2W6
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/142 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/37.5 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
MechanicsvilleMECM2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Charlotte Hall 3.6 ENEMD-SM-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/128 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 Main Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Golden Beachcommunity, 2 mi
- Benedictcommunity, 2 mi
- Eagle Harbortown, 5 mi
- Mechanicsvillecommunity, 5 mi
- Charlotte Hallcommunity, 6 mi
- Prince Frederickcommunity, 6 mi
- Hughesvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Aquascocommunity, 7 mi
- Huntingtowncommunity, 8 mi
- Broomes Islandcommunity, 8 mi
- St. Leonardcommunity, 9 mi
- Bryantowncommunity, 9 mi
Beaches near Main Beach
- Matoaka Beach10 mi
- Long Beach11 mi
- Breezy Point Beach12 mi
- Brownie's Beach15 mi
- Wicomico Beach15 mi
- North Beach17 mi
- Cove Point Beach17 mi
- Seahorse Beach18 mi