Beaches/Rhode Island/Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach

Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach, Rhode Island

Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island

36° 57°/36°

Clear· Feels like 31°·Light breeze 6 mph N

Now. Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach is 36° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest Saturday, near 56°. The days ahead look dry.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 51% lit, and sets at 11:56 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. The bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

23Air quality

71%Humidity

4%Cloud

Now

5:00 AM

36feels31

Today

Oct 18

5736

Mon

Oct 19

6041

12mph

Tue

Oct 20

6144

17mph

Wed

Oct 21

5844

11%

16mph

Thu

Oct 22

6042

20%

13mph

Fri

Oct 23

5843

14mph

Sat

Oct 24

5641

12mph

36°

57°36°

60°41°

61°44°

58°44°

60°42°

58°43°

56°41°

As of 5:00 AM in Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach, Rhode Island.

Air quality

The air at Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach

Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 13 miles off.

23Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good17.5 mi
Ozone23Good24 ppb17.5 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-20.2 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.

GoodModerate

23YesterdayOct 17
36TodayOct 18
33MonOct 19
30TueOct 20

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach

0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.33 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.10in
Last 3 days: 0.33in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 30%

Visibility

How far you can see at Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 2 AM.

Looking SE from the sand at 5:22 AM, night, clear, waves about 4.0 ft every 9 s. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, moderate (yellow), not a flag raised on the beach.

Facing SE 125°

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 Washington RI.

Today

Rip current risk: Moderate
Surf height: 2 to 6 feet
Water temperature: In the lower 60s
UV index: Moderate

Surf zone forecast

Washington RI, including Narragansett, Charlestown, and Westerly. Issued 4:09 AM EDT Sun Oct 18.

Forecast	Today	Monday
Rip current risk	Moderate	High
Surf height	2 to 6 feet	6 to 10 feet
Water temperature	In the lower 60s	-
UV index	Moderate	-
Thunderstorm potential	None	None
Weather	Sunny	Mostly sunny until 3 PM, then partly sunny
High temperature	In the mid 50s	In the upper 50s
Winds	Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph	Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph
Tides	Watch Hill PointLow 0.7 ft, 7:59 AMHigh 2.2 ft, 2:44 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)Low 0.9 ft, 7:03 AMHigh 2.7 ft, 1:55 PMNarragansett PierLow 0.9 ft, 6:54 AMHigh 2.7 ft, 1:52 PM	Watch Hill PointLow 0.7 ft, 9:20 AMHigh 2.1 ft, 3:34 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)Low 1.0 ft, 8:20 AMHigh 2.7 ft, 2:50 PMNarragansett PierLow 1.0 ft, 8:15 AMHigh 2.6 ft, 2:42 PM

Tuesday: Surf height 9 to 12 feet. Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around 20 mph
Wednesday: Surf height 12 to 15 feet. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
Thursday: Surf height 11 to 14 feet. Partly sunny. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 15 mph

Tide

Tide at Watch Hill Point. Low 0.7 ft at Sun 7:59 AM, High 2.2 ft at Sun 2:44 PM, Low 0.7 ft at Mon 9:20 AM, High 2.1 ft at Mon 3:34 PM. Heights in feet above mean lower low water.

Beach

County: Washington County
State: Rhode Island
Latitude: 41.3418° N
Longitude: 71.6945° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Sam Ferrenti East Beach Town Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

WesterlyWST

At an airfield/5.4 mi away/79 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Citizen station DW8163DW8163

In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/89 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

NinigretNINR1

At a river or reservoir gauge/6.5 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Kingston 1 W54797

At a climate reference station/11.9 mi away/106 ft/- ft from here