At an airfield/1.6 mi away/108 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beaches/Rhode Island/Mosquito Beach
Mosquito Beach, Rhode Island
Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island58°
68°/50°
Overcast·
Feels like 58°·Moderate breeze 14 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 75% around 8 AM.
Now. Mosquito Beach is 58° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the south at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:54 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
83%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
58feels58
14mph
Today
Oct 16
6850
93%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5446
91%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5540
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
5746
25%
18mph
Tue
Oct 20
5949
21%
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
5950
19mph
Thu
Oct 22
5849
12%
19mph
58°
68°50°
54°46°
55°40°
57°46°
59°49°
59°50°
58°49°
As of 7:00 AM in Mosquito Beach, Rhode Island.
Air quality
The air at Mosquito Beach
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 20 miles off.
36Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good22.4 mi
- Ozone36Good35 ppb22.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
- 11SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mosquito Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 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 Mosquito Beach, the next 44 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 1 PM, under a mile for 6 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 64°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: moderate
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Block Island RI.
Today
- Rip current risk
- Moderate
- Surf height
- 3 to 6 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 60s
- UV index
- Low
Surf zone forecast
Block Island RI, including Block Island. Issued 4:10 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | Moderate | Moderate |
| Surf height | 3 to 6 feet | 5 to 6 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 60s | - |
| UV index | Low | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Weather | Cloudy. Patchy fog. Showers | Mostly cloudy until 4 PM, then mostly sunny. Showers likely |
| High temperature | In the upper 60s | In the lower 50s |
| Winds | South winds around 20 mph | North winds around 20 mph |
| Tides | High 2.7 ft, 11:53 AM | High 2.6 ft, 12:47 PM |
- Sunday
- Surf height 2 to 5 feet. Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
- Monday
- Surf height around 3 feet. Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
- Tuesday
- Surf height around 3 feet. Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
Beach
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Latitude
- 41.1934° N
- Longitude
- 71.5747° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mosquito Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW8194FW8194
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/130 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NinigretNINR1
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kingston 1 W54797
At a climate reference station/19.2 mi away/106 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
New Shoreham 2.4 NNERI-WS-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/32 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Block IslandBIDR1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/3 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 Block Island (BIDR1), 2.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Rhode Island
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mosquito Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Block Islandfeature, under 1 mi
- Quonochontaugcommunity, 12 mi
- Point Judithfeature, 13 mi
- Charlestowncommunity, 13 mi
- Weekapaugcommunity, 14 mi
- Misquamicutcommunity, 16 mi
- Bradfordcommunity, 17 mi
- Watch Hillcommunity, 17 mi
- Narragansett Piercommunity, 17 mi
- Wakefield-Peace Dalecommunity, 18 mi
- Westerlytown, 18 mi
- Carolinacommunity, 19 mi
Beaches near Mosquito Beach
- Scotch Beachunder 1 mi
- Crescent Beachunder 1 mi
- Block Island State Beachunder 1 mi
- Mansion Beachunder 1 mi
- Charleston Beachunder 1 mi
- Fred Benson Town Beach1 mi
- Baby Beach1 mi
- Surf Beach2 mi