Kings PointNDBC-KPTN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Orchard Beach, New York
Beach in Bronx County, New York61°
76°/56°
Overcast·
Feels like 61°·Gentle breeze 9 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (77%).
Now. Orchard Beach is 61° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the south at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
88%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
61feels61
12%
Today
Oct 16
7656
88%
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
5349
42%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5639
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
5944
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6448
12%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6451
15mph
Thu
Oct 22
6250
15mph
61°
76°56°
53°49°
56°39°
59°44°
64°48°
64°51°
62°50°
As of 6:00 AM in Orchard Beach, New York.
Air quality
The air at Orchard Beach
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, New York City Region (NY), 3 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone29Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 15
- 35TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Orchard Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 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 Orchard Beach, the next 45 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.7 miles Fri 8 PM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 90°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44065, 34.8 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44065, New York Harbor Entrance
- Wave height
- 2.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- SE (129°)
- Swell
- 1.3 ft at 12 s from ESE
- Wind waves
- 2.0 ft at 4 s from SE
- Water
- 64 °F
- Read
- Fri 5:50 AM
- Distance
- 34.8 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 5:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | SE (129°) |
| Fri 4:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | SE (130°) |
| Fri 3:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (120°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ESE (120°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (115°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (120°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | SE (125°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | ESE (114°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (121°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 10 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 10 s | ESE (109°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 11 s | ESE (112°) |
| Thu 5:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 9 s | ESE (119°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 11 s | SE (127°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | E (79°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 14 s | ESE (122°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 2.0 ft | 4 s | ENE (74°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 15 s | ENE (71°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 4 s | ENE (67°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | NNE (27°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NE (55°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | NNE (30°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | NNE (31°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 2.3 ft | 3 s | NNE (20°) |
Beach
- County
- Bronx County
- State
- New York
- Latitude
- 40.8662° N
- Longitude
- 73.7935° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Orchard Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW2966FW2966
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/27 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SchodackNY003
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/328 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pelham Manor 0.2 NNY-WC-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/47 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyossetSYON6
At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/251 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
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Near Orchard Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pelham Manorvillage, 2 mi
- Pelhamvillage, 3 mi
- New Rochellecity, 3 mi
- Mount Vernoncity, 4 mi
- Sands Pointvillage, 4 mi
- Kings Pointvillage, 4 mi
- Manorhavenvillage, 4 mi
- Larchmontvillage, 5 mi
- Port Washington Northvillage, 5 mi
- Great Neckvillage, 5 mi
- Baxter Estatesvillage, 5 mi
- Bronxvillevillage, 5 mi