At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/7 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/New Jersey/Fortescue Beach
Fortescue Beach, New Jersey
Beach in Cumberland County, New JerseyGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, northwest winds 20 to 25 kt and rough waters expected. For the Gale Watch, north winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and rough waters possible. * WHERE...Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE and Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 2 AM to 6 AM EDT Saturday. For the Gale Watch, from Saturday morning through Saturday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Strong winds can cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.
Mariners should consider altering plans to avoid possible hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for severe wind and seas.
59°
80°/58°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 59°·Light breeze 4 mph ESE
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Fortescue Beach until 6 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 89% around 1 AM.
Now. Fortescue Beach is 59° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (96%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
80%Humidity
75%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
59feels59
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
8058
89%
Sat
Oct 17
5646
96%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5839
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6143
22%
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
6545
18%
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
6447
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
6247
10%
59°
80°58°
56°46°
58°39°
61°43°
65°45°
64°47°
62°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Fortescue Beach, New Jersey.
Air quality
The air at Fortescue Beach
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Bay (NJ), 16 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)4Good-
- Ozone22Good23 ppb14.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1 ppb14.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 15
- 50TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fortescue Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Fortescue Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NW 315°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Cumberland County
- State
- New Jersey
- Latitude
- 39.2368° N
- Longitude
- 75.1732° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fortescue Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/82 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0566CW0566
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.5 mi away/74 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Millville 0.7 SNJ-CD-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/90 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SeabrookSEAN4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.5 mi away/85 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 Fortescue Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fortescuecommunity, under 1 mi
- Gandys Beachcommunity, 4 mi
- Newportcommunity, 4 mi
- Dividing Creekcommunity, 5 mi
- Money Islandcommunity, 5 mi
- Cedarvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Port Norriscommunity, 7 mi
- Centre Grovecommunity, 9 mi
- Heislervillecommunity, 10 mi
- Laurel Lakecommunity, 10 mi
- Mauricetowncommunity, 10 mi
- Fairtoncommunity, 10 mi
Beaches near Fortescue Beach
- Gandy's Beach Preserve5 mi
- Thompsons Beach10 mi
- Shorebirds Moores Beach Preserve11 mi
- Moores Beach12 mi
- Cooks Beach17 mi
- Kimbles Beach17 mi
- Sunray Beach19 mi
- Miami Beach19 mi