Currituck Sound 1 S Outer Bank Center for Wildlife Education CorOBCN7
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/North Carolina/Currituck Beach
Currituck Beach, North Carolina
Beach in Currituck County, North Carolina67°
85°/66°
Overcast·
Feels like 67°·Light breeze 5 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 91% around 9 AM.
Now. Currituck Beach is 67° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 56): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (95%) and Monday (51%). Rain is possible Sunday (37%), Tuesday (43%), Wednesday (36%) and Thursday (37%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 26 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
56Air quality
96%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
67feels67
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8566
33%
12mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6356
95%
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
6452
37%
26mph
Mon
Oct 19
6657
51%
24mph
Tue
Oct 20
6757
43%
20mph
Wed
Oct 21
6858
36%
21mph
Thu
Oct 22
6859
37%
19mph
67°
85°66°
63°56°
64°52°
66°57°
67°57°
68°58°
68°59°
As of 4:00 AM in Currituck Beach, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Currituck Beach
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 52 miles off.
56Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)56Moderate-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)29Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 55YesterdayOct 15
- 53TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Currituck Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Currituck Beach, the next 41 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 101°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44056, 14.0 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44056, Duck FRF
- Wave height
- 3.6 ft
- Period
- 7 s
- From
- NE (44°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 11 s from E
- Wind waves
- 3.3 ft at 7 s from NE
- Water
- 71 °F
- Read
- Fri 3:30 AM
- Distance
- 14.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 3:30 AM | 3.6 ft | 7 s | NE (44°) |
| Fri 2:30 AM | 3.3 ft | 7 s | NE (41°) |
| Fri 1:30 AM | 3.6 ft | 7 s | NE (37°) |
| Fri 12:30 AM | 3.9 ft | 7 s | NE (51°) |
| Thu 11:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 7 s | NE (42°) |
| Thu 10:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (45°) |
| Thu 9:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (46°) |
| Thu 8:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NE (34°) |
| Thu 7:00 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 6:30 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (29°) |
| Thu 5:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 4:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 3:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NNE (14°) |
| Thu 2:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (13°) |
| Thu 1:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 4 s | NNE (23°) |
| Thu 12:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 11:30 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (7°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (92°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 8:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (88°) |
| Thu 7:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 6:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (103°) |
| Thu 5:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (94°) |
| Thu 4:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (77°) |
Beach
- County
- Currituck County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 36.3815° N
- Longitude
- 75.8249° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Currituck Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CurrituckONX
At an airfield/10.7 mi away/18 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/2 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Corolla 0.2 SSWNC-CC-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waste Treatmt PlantEZCN7
At a cooperative observer's station/21.8 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Currituck Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Coinjockcommunity, 7 mi
- Grandycommunity, 10 mi
- Ducktown, 15 mi
- Southern Shorestown, 19 mi
- Camdencommunity, 20 mi
- Moyockcommunity, 21 mi
- Kitty Hawktown, 22 mi
- Elizabeth Citycity, 23 mi
- Kill Devil Hillstown, 26 mi
- South Millscommunity, 28 mi
- Nags Headtown, 31 mi
- Manns Harborcommunity, 33 mi
Beaches near Currituck Beach
- Bugsy Beach20 mi
- Coquina Beach41 mi
- Batemans Beach51 mi
- Bertie Beach56 mi
- Rodanthe Public Beach Access58 mi
- Bald Beach70 mi
- Bible Shore71 mi
- Norflick Shore75 mi