At an airfield/11.5 mi away/56 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Drift Inn Beach, Maine
Beach in Knox County, Maine42°
59°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Calm 1 mph N
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 82% around 11 AM.
Now. Drift Inn Beach is 42° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 1 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Saturday, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (99%) and Saturday (67%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
84%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
42feels42
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
5941
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
6437
99%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5137
67%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5531
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5635
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6036
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5836
clear day
42°
59°41°
64°37°
51°37°
55°31°
56°35°
60°36°
58°36°
As of 10:00 PM in Drift Inn Beach, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Drift Inn Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Mid-Coast (ME), 37 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Drift Inn Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 1.55 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.55in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Drift Inn Beach, the next 41 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 5 PM, under a mile for 4 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 124°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44007, 52.8 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44007, Portland
- Wave height
- 1.0 ft
- Period
- 8 s
- From
- ESE (113°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 8 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 0.3 ft at 3 s from SSW
- Water
- 55 °F
- Read
- Thu 9:50 PM
- Distance
- 52.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 9:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | ESE (113°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | SE (146°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.0 ft | 7 s | SE (133°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 2 s | NNW (348°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | NNW (327°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (118°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (6°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (3°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | N (0°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (359°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 8 s | SE (142°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | SSE (149°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | N (9°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 8 s | SSE (155°) |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 7 s | SE (135°) |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 7 s | SE (132°) |
| Thu 2:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 8 s | SE (141°) |
| Thu 1:50 AM | 3.0 ft | 8 s | SE (138°) |
| Thu 12:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 7 s | SE (139°) |
| Wed 11:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 7 s | SE (144°) |
| Wed 10:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 8 s | SE (136°) |
Beach
- County
- Knox County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 43.9311° N
- Longitude
- 69.2445° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Drift Inn Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW1852CW1852
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.7 mi away/61 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rt. 1 NB Waldoboro102695
Beside a road/15.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West RockportWRKM1
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.7 mi away/384 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thomaston 0.6 WSWME-KX-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/120 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NewcastleNEWM1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.5 mi away/151 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 Maine
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Drift Inn Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Thomastoncommunity, 11 mi
- Waldoborocommunity, 13 mi
- Rocklandcity, 14 mi
- Damariscottacommunity, 15 mi
- Newcastlecommunity, 16 mi
- Boothbay Harborcommunity, 20 mi
- Camden Snow Bowlski area, 20 mi
- Camdencommunity, 21 mi
- Wiscassetcommunity, 22 mi
- Bathcity, 29 mi
- Richmondcommunity, 30 mi
- Randolphcommunity, 33 mi
Beaches near Drift Inn Beach
- Walker's Beach6 mi
- Lucia Beach11 mi
- Pebbly Beach11 mi
- Ernie's Beach12 mi
- Crockett's Beach12 mi
- Fish Beach12 mi
- Sandy Beach13 mi
- Pemaquid Beach14 mi