Beaches/Rhode Island/Scarborough South State Beach

Scarborough South State Beach, Rhode Island

Beach in Washington County, Rhode Island

67° 67°/48°

Overcast· Feels like 67°·Gentle breeze 12 mph SW

Alert. A Small Craft Advisory is in force for Scarborough South State Beach until 8 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 55% around 6 AM.

Now. Scarborough South State Beach is 67° and overcast at 4 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.

Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 64° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (60%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:53 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

1UV Low

28Air quality

96%Humidity

98%Cloud

Now

4:00 PM

67feels67

10%

12mph

Today

Oct 16

6748

96%

17mph

Sat

Oct 17

5243

60%

13mph

Sun

Oct 18

5336

Mon

Oct 19

5741

17%

16mph

Tue

Oct 20

6045

20%

17mph

Wed

Oct 21

6047

18mph

Thu

Oct 22

5946

27%

16mph

67°

67°48°

52°43°

53°36°

57°41°

60°45°

60°47°

59°46°

As of 4:00 PM in Scarborough South State Beach, Rhode Island.

Air quality

The air at Scarborough South State Beach

Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 7 miles off.

28Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good20.4 mi
Ozone28Good25 ppb20.4 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.

GoodModerate

36YesterdayOct 15
33TodayOct 16
35SatOct 17
36SunOct 18
33MonOct 19
30TueOct 20

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Scarborough South State Beach

0.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.20in
Last 3 days: 0.20in

Visibility

How far you can see at Scarborough South State Beach, the next 41 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 7 PM, under a mile for 3 hours.

Looking SSE from the sand at 4:39 PM, daylight, overcast, waves about 6.0 ft every 9 s, the tide falling at 2.2 ft. The flag is the colour of the day's rip current risk, low (green), not a flag raised on the beach.

Facing SSE 158°

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Rip current risk today: low

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.

Rest of today

Rip current risk: Low
Surf height: Around 6 feet
Water temperature: In the mid 60s
UV index: Low

Surf zone forecast

Washington RI, including Narragansett, Charlestown, and Westerly. Issued 4:11 PM EDT Fri Oct 16.

Forecast	Rest of today	Saturday
Rip current risk	Low	Low
Surf height	Around 6 feet	4 to 7 feet
Water temperature	In the mid 60s	-
UV index	Low	-
Thunderstorm potential	None	None
Weather	Cloudy. Patchy fog. A slight chance of showers	Mostly cloudy until 5 PM, then mostly sunny. Showers likely
High temperature	In the upper 60s	In the lower 50s
Winds	Southwest winds around 15 mph	North winds 15 to 25 mph
Tides	Watch Hill PointHigh 2.4 ft, 1:04 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)High 3.0 ft, 12:11 PMNarragansett PierHigh 2.9 ft, 12:12 PM	Watch Hill PointLow 0.6 ft, 6:59 AMHigh 2.2 ft, 1:54 PMPoint Judith (Harbor)Low 0.8 ft, 6:02 AMHigh 2.8 ft, 1:01 PMNarragansett PierHigh 2.7 ft, 1:02 PM

Sunday: Surf height 2 to 6 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph
Monday: Surf height 7 to 11 feet. Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph
Tuesday: Surf height 7 to 11 feet. Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around 20 mph

Tide

Tide at Watch Hill Point. High 2.4 ft at Fri 1:04 PM, Low 0.6 ft at Sat 6:59 AM, High 2.2 ft at Sat 1:54 PM. Heights in feet above mean lower low water.

Beach

County: Washington County
State: Rhode Island
Latitude: 41.3804° N
Longitude: 71.4778° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Scarborough South State Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

NinigretNINR1

At a river or reservoir gauge/5.4 mi away/36 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Kingston 1 W54797

At a climate reference station/7.0 mi away/106 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

Citizen station DW8163DW8163

In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/89 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

NewportUUU

At an airfield/14.6 mi away/95 ft/- ft from here