Barnegat Light USGS weather station394540074062901
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/New Jersey/Barnegat Light Bay Beach
Barnegat Light Bay Beach, New Jersey
Beach in Ocean County, New Jersey70°
79°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 70°·Gentle breeze 9 mph SW
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (66%).
Now. Barnegat Light Bay Beach is 70° and overcast at 11 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%). Rain is possible Monday (34%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
32Air quality
93%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
70feels70
13%
Today
Oct 16
7955
79%
Sat
Oct 17
5443
66%
Sun
Oct 18
5637
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5941
34%
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6245
23%
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
6249
21%
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
6148
26%
12mph
70°
79°55°
54°43°
56°37°
59°41°
62°45°
62°49°
61°48°
As of 11:00 AM in Barnegat Light Bay Beach, New Jersey.
Air quality
The air at Barnegat Light Bay Beach
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Southeast Burlington and Ocean Counties (NJ), 6 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone20Good-
The days ahead
Highest 55, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 50TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 40SunOct 18
- 55MonOct 19
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 Barnegat Light Bay Beach
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at Barnegat Light Bay Beach, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WNW 284°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44091, 18.6 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44091, Barnegat
- Wave height
- 3.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- ESE (110°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 10 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 3.0 ft at 4 s from ESE
- Water
- 65 °F
- Read
- Fri 10:30 AM
- Distance
- 18.6 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 10:30 AM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (110°) |
| Fri 9:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | E (97°) |
| Fri 8:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (101°) |
| Fri 7:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (112°) |
| Fri 6:30 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | E (87°) |
| Fri 5:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | ESE (102°) |
| Fri 4:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (100°) |
| Fri 3:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | E (81°) |
| Fri 2:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (96°) |
| Fri 1:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | ENE (73°) |
| Fri 12:30 AM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | E (80°) |
| Thu 11:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | ENE (67°) |
| Thu 10:30 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ENE (71°) |
| Thu 9:30 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 8:30 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ENE (58°) |
| Thu 7:00 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | ENE (61°) |
| Thu 6:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NE (54°) |
| Thu 5:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | NE (56°) |
| Thu 4:30 PM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | NE (54°) |
| Thu 3:30 PM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | NE (50°) |
| Thu 2:30 PM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | NE (46°) |
| Thu 1:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 5 s | NE (47°) |
| Thu 12:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NE (38°) |
| Thu 11:30 AM | 5.2 ft | 5 s | NE (37°) |
Beach
- County
- Ocean County
- State
- New Jersey
- Latitude
- 39.7449° N
- Longitude
- 74.1175° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Barnegat Light Bay Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW4111FW4111
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Toms RiverMJX
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/82 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Barnegat Light 0.9 SSWNJ-OC-97
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TuckertonJCRN4
At a cooperative observer's station/23.5 mi away/23 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 New Jersey
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Barnegat Light Bay Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Barnegat Lightborough, 1 mi
- Harvey Cedarsborough, 3 mi
- Barnegat Bayfeature, 3 mi
- Waretowncommunity, 5 mi
- Barnegatcommunity, 6 mi
- Surf Cityborough, 6 mi
- Forked Rivercommunity, 7 mi
- Ship Bottomborough, 8 mi
- Beach Haven Westcommunity, 8 mi
- Manahawkincommunity, 8 mi
- Ocean Acrescommunity, 9 mi
- North Beach Havencommunity, 11 mi
Beaches near Barnegat Light Bay Beach
- Long Beachunder 1 mi
- Harvey Cedars Bay Beach3 mi
- Little Beach3 mi
- Shore Beach4 mi
- Bay beach4 mi
- Long Beach5 mi
- Island Beach6 mi
- Bathing Beach Number 27 mi