At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/-8 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/New Jersey/Bay beach
Bay beach, New Jersey
Beach in Ocean County, New Jersey62°
79°/54°
Overcast·
Feels like 62°·Light breeze 7 mph SE
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (57%).
Now. Bay beach is 62° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (86%).
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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
97%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
62feels62
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
7954
80%
Sat
Oct 17
5445
86%
Sun
Oct 18
5637
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5940
29%
Tue
Oct 20
6344
17%
Wed
Oct 21
6347
10%
Thu
Oct 22
6147
15%
62°
79°54°
54°45°
56°37°
59°40°
63°44°
63°47°
61°47°
As of 4:00 AM in Bay beach, New Jersey.
Air quality
The air at Bay beach
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Southeast Burlington and Ocean Counties (NJ), 2 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Ozone12Good16 ppb24.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 50TodayOct 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 Bay 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 Bay beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ESE 106°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44091, 22.1 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44091, Barnegat
- Wave height
- 3.0 ft
- Period
- 5 s
- From
- E (81°)
- Swell
- 1.0 ft at 10 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.6 ft at 4 s from E
- Water
- 65 °F
- Read
- Fri 3:30 AM
- Distance
- 22.1 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 | 3.0 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°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (33°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (30°) |
| Thu 8:30 AM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (26°) |
| Thu 7:30 AM | 4.6 ft | 5 s | NNE (32°) |
| Thu 6:30 AM | 4.3 ft | 4 s | NNE (23°) |
| Thu 5:30 AM | 3.6 ft | 5 s | N (353°) |
| Thu 4:30 AM | 3.6 ft | 4 s | NNW (348°) |
Beach
- County
- Ocean County
- State
- New Jersey
- Latitude
- 39.7748° N
- Longitude
- 74.1859° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Bay beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW4111FW4111
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Toms RiverMJX
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/82 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ocean Twp 1.7 SSENJ-OC-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TuckertonJCRN4
At a cooperative observer's station/22.2 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.
Atlantic CitycityBarnegat BayfeatureCamdencityCampgawski areaCape MaycityDelaware Water GapfeatureHigh PointfeatureJersey CitycityLong BranchcityMorristowncityMountain Creekski areaNew BrunswickcityNewarkcityPatersoncityPine BarrensfeaturePrincetoncitySandy HookfeatureSussextownToms RivertownTrentoncityVinelandcityWildwoodtown
Near Bay beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Waretowncommunity, 1 mi
- Barnegat Bayfeature, 2 mi
- Barnegatcommunity, 2 mi
- Forked Rivercommunity, 4 mi
- Barnegat Lightborough, 4 mi
- Harvey Cedarsborough, 6 mi
- Ocean Acrescommunity, 6 mi
- Manahawkincommunity, 6 mi
- Beach Haven Westcommunity, 8 mi
- Surf Cityborough, 8 mi
- Ship Bottomborough, 9 mi
- Beachwoodborough, 11 mi
Beaches near Bay beach
- Shore Beach1 mi
- Little Beach2 mi
- Barnegat Light Bay Beach4 mi
- Long Beach5 mi
- Harvey Cedars Bay Beach5 mi
- Long Beach7 mi
- Island Beach7 mi
- Bathing Beach Number 27 mi