Citizen station GW5487GW5487
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beaches/New Jersey/Windward Beach
Windward Beach, New Jersey
Beach in Ocean County, New Jersey63°
79°/54°
Overcast·
Feels like 63°·Light breeze 7 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM, the chance peaking at 55% around 9 PM.
Now. Windward Beach is 63° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (55%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
93%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
63feels63
15%
Today
Oct 16
7954
75%
Sat
Oct 17
5545
55%
Sun
Oct 18
5637
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5941
27%
Tue
Oct 20
6344
15%
Wed
Oct 21
6347
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
6147
14%
63°
79°54°
55°45°
56°37°
59°41°
63°44°
63°47°
61°47°
As of 8:00 AM in Windward Beach, New Jersey.
Air quality
The air at Windward Beach
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Southeast Burlington and Ocean Counties (NJ), 19 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone15Good20 ppb16 mi
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 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Windward Beach
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.11in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 36%
Visibility
How far you can see at Windward Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SSW 210°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44091, 26.8 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44091, Barnegat
- Wave height
- 2.6 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- ESE (107°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 10 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.6 ft at 4 s from ESE
- Water
- 65 °F
- Read
- Fri 8:00 AM
- Distance
- 26.8 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 8:00 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | ESE (107°) |
| 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°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (33°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 4.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (30°) |
Beach
- County
- Ocean County
- State
- New Jersey
- Latitude
- 40.0572° N
- Longitude
- 74.1111° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Windward Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mantoloking USGS weather station400226074031601
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/157 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Brick Twp 1.5 NNENJ-OC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/22 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ManasquanMSQN4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Manasquan (MSQN4), 6.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in New Jersey
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Windward Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Point Pleasantborough, 2 mi
- Leisure Village Eastcommunity, 3 mi
- Mantolokingborough, 3 mi
- Bay Headborough, 3 mi
- Leisure Villagecommunity, 4 mi
- Point Pleasant Beachborough, 4 mi
- Ramtowncommunity, 4 mi
- Brielleborough, 4 mi
- Dover Beaches Northcommunity, 5 mi
- Manasquanborough, 6 mi
- Lakewoodcommunity, 6 mi
- Allenwoodcommunity, 6 mi
Beaches near Windward Beach
- Nejecho Beach2 mi
- Green Island Point Beach3 mi
- GICA Beach3 mi
- Brick Beach Park4 mi
- Chadwick Beach5 mi
- Money Island Beach8 mi
- Sunset Beach8 mi
- Beachwood Beach9 mi