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Walker's Beach, Maine

Beach in Knox County, Maine

Air quality

The air at Walker's Beach

Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Mid-Coast (ME), 39 miles off.

19Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
  • Ozone19Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.

Smoke, the next 42 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Walker's Beach

None in the last 24 hours; 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
1.40in

Visibility

How far you can see at Walker's Beach, the next 42 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 4 PM, under a mile for 3 hours.

FriSat
Walker's Beach from its sand, nowLooking W from the sand at 3:18 AM, night, mostly clear, waves about 0.8 ft every 12 s.250260W280Facing W 268°
Looking W from the sand at 3:18 AM, night, mostly clear, waves about 0.8 ft every 12 s.
NESW

Facing W 268°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44007, 49.4 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44007, Portland

Wave height
1.0 ft
Period
12 s
From
SE (132°)
Swell
0.7 ft at 8 s from SE
Wind waves
0.7 ft at 2 s from ENE
Water
55 °F
Read
Fri 2:20 AM
Distance
49.4 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.

Wave height at buoy 44007, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.7 ft to 5.2 ft; 1.0 ft at Fri 2:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft6 AMNoon6 PMThu6 AMNoon6 PMFri1.0 ftWave height at buoy 44007, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 0.7 ft to 5.2 ft; 1.0 ft at Fri 2:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftNoonThuNoonFri1.0 ft
Significant wave height from 0.7 ft to 5.2 ft; 1.0 ft at Fri 2:20 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Fri 2:20 AM1.0 ft12 sSE (132°)
Fri 1:50 AM1.0 ft8 sSSE (148°)
Fri 12:50 AM0.7 ft--
Thu 11:50 PM1.0 ft8 sESE (123°)
Thu 10:50 PM1.0 ft8 sSE (127°)
Thu 9:50 PM1.0 ft8 sESE (113°)
Thu 8:50 PM1.0 ft8 sSE (146°)
Thu 7:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 6:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 5:50 PM0.7 ft--
Thu 4:50 PM1.0 ft7 sSE (133°)
Thu 3:50 PM1.3 ft2 sNNW (348°)
Thu 2:50 PM1.3 ft3 sNNW (327°)
Thu 1:50 PM1.3 ft8 sESE (118°)
Thu 12:50 PM1.6 ft3 sN (6°)
Thu 11:50 AM1.6 ft3 sN (3°)
Thu 10:50 AM1.6 ft3 sN (0°)
Thu 9:50 AM2.0 ft3 sN (359°)
Thu 8:50 AM1.6 ft8 sSE (142°)
Thu 7:50 AM2.0 ft8 sSSE (149°)
Thu 6:50 AM2.6 ft3 sN (9°)
Thu 5:50 AM2.0 ft8 sSSE (155°)
Thu 4:50 AM2.0 ft7 sSE (135°)
Thu 3:50 AM2.3 ft7 sSE (132°)

Beach

County
Knox County
State
Maine
Latitude
43.9681° N
Longitude
69.3626° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Walker's Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.0 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station GW2305GW2305

In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/20 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Rt. 1 NB Waldoboro102695

Beside a road/9.9 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Rockland/Knox(AWOS)RKD

At an airfield/14.5 mi away/56 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

West RockportWRKM1

At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/384 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Bristol 1.5 NWME-LN-9

In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/168 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

NewcastleNEWM1

At a cooperative observer's station/10.2 mi away/151 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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