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Beaches/North Carolina/North Topsail Shores
North Topsail Shores, North Carolina
Beach in Onslow County, North Carolina80°
85°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 80°·Light breeze 7 mph SW
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 11 AM, the chance peaking at 90% around 12 PM.
Now. North Topsail Shores is 80° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 64° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (96%). Rain is possible Sunday (46%) and Monday (41%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
55Air quality
65%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
80feels80
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8566
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6657
96%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6345
46%
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6649
41%
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
6851
24%
Wed
Oct 21
7153
21%
Thu
Oct 22
7154
21%
80°
85°66°
66°57°
63°45°
66°49°
68°51°
71°53°
71°54°
As of 11:00 AM in North Topsail Shores, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at North Topsail Shores
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, New Hanover County (NC), 36 miles off.
55Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)55Moderate-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 71, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 71YesterdayOct 15
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 40 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at North Topsail Shores
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 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 North Topsail Shores, the next 40 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSE 156°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Coastal Onslow.
Rest of today
- Rip current risk
- Moderate
- Surf height
- Around 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the lower 70s
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Onslow, including Hammocks Beach and North Topsail Beach. Issued 9:47 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Rest of today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Moderate |
| Surf height | Around 2 feet | 3 to 4 feet |
| Water temperature | In the lower 70s | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Mostly sunny | Mostly cloudy. Rain likely |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | In the upper 60s |
| Winds | Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph | North winds 15 to 20 mph |
| Tides | North Topsail BeachHigh 4.7 ft, 11:53 AM | North Topsail BeachHigh 4.5 ft, 12:48 PM |
Beach
- County
- Onslow County
- State
- North Carolina
- Latitude
- 34.5218° N
- Longitude
- 77.3552° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest North Topsail Shores, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW5945EW5945
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.8 mi away/21 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
North Topsail Beach 4.7 ENENC-ON-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jacksonville E0CJEON7
At a cooperative observer's station/19.2 mi away/66 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 North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near North Topsail Shores
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Topsail Beachtown, 1 mi
- Sneads Ferrycommunity, 3 mi
- Holly Ridgetown, 11 mi
- Surf Citytown, 13 mi
- Piney Greencommunity, 16 mi
- Jacksonvillecity, 16 mi
- Swansborotown, 17 mi
- Pumpkin Centercommunity, 18 mi
- Cedar Pointtown, 19 mi
- Topsail Beachtown, 19 mi
- Emerald Isletown, 20 mi
- Half Mooncommunity, 21 mi
Beaches near North Topsail Shores
- Onslow Beach6 mi
- Hurst Beach7 mi
- Sea Haven Beach8 mi
- Stevens Street Public Beach Access12 mi
- Hammocks Beach State Park13 mi
- Headys Beach14 mi
- Indian Beach29 mi
- Indian Beach30 mi