Ducktrap River At LincolnvilleLINM1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/138 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wales Beach, Maine
Beach in Waldo County, Maine* WHAT...Northwest winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and seas 2 to 5 ft. * WHERE...Penobscot Bay and Casco Bay. * WHEN...Until midnight EDT Saturday night. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
58°
64°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 58°·Gentle breeze 12 mph SSW
Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Wales Beach until 12 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 64° today.
Now. Wales Beach is 58° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 12 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 58°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:30 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
100%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
6:00 PM
58feels58
29%
12mph
Today
Oct 16
6438
99%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
4937
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5132
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5435
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5836
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5537
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5236
12%
58°
64°38°
49°37°
51°32°
54°35°
58°36°
55°37°
52°36°
As of 6:00 PM in Wales Beach, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Wales Beach
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Mid-Coast (ME), 10 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good-
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wales Beach
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.15in
- Last 3 days
- 0.74in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 20%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wales Beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 128°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Waldo County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 44.2987° N
- Longitude
- 68.9842° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wales Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW3175GW3175
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/369 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/56 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rt. 1 NB Waldoboro102695
Beside a road/25.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Northport 0.7 NEME-WL-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/165 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BelfastBELM1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/82 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
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Near Wales Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Beaches near Wales Beach
- Pebble Beachunder 1 mi
- Ducktrap Beachunder 1 mi
- Lincolnville Beach2 mi
- Cals Beach2 mi
- Big Tree Beach4 mi
- Billys Shore5 mi
- Islesboro Town Beach5 mi
- Barrett's Cove Beach6 mi