South Foster - Ponaganset RiverFSTR1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/354 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/Rhode Island/Wescott Beach
Wescott Beach, Rhode Island
Beach in Providence County, Rhode Island47°
69°/45°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 46°·Light air 3 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 73% around 11 AM.
Now. Wescott Beach is 47° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (85%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:51 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
86%Humidity
39%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
47feels46
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
6945
96%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5144
85%
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5533
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5938
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6241
13%
Wed
Oct 21
6044
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
5842
partly cloudy day
47°
69°45°
51°44°
55°33°
59°38°
62°41°
60°44°
58°42°
As of 12:00 AM in Wescott Beach, Rhode Island.
Air quality
The air at Wescott Beach
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Western (RI), 9 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good15.1 mi
- Ozone5Good2 ppb15.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-15.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide6Good6.4 ppb17.7 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb17.7 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm17.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 16
- 32SatOct 17
- 11SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wescott Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Wescott Beach, the next 45 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Providence County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Latitude
- 41.8871° N
- Longitude
- 71.6961° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wescott Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW6927FW6927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/277 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/440 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Kingston 1 NW54796
At a climate reference station/28.6 mi away/115 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pascoag 4.9 SRI-PR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/464 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FosterFTFR1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/642 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 Foster (FTFR1), 2.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Rhode Island
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Wescott Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Chepachetcommunity, 2 mi
- Pascoagcommunity, 5 mi
- Harmonycommunity, 5 mi
- Harrisvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Foster Centercommunity, 7 mi
- Greenvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Clayvillecommunity, 8 mi
- Woonsocketcity, 12 mi
- Greenecommunity, 13 mi
- Cumberland Hillcommunity, 13 mi
- Providencecity, 15 mi
- Cranstoncity, 15 mi
Beaches near Wescott Beach
- Marion Irons Beach4 mi
- Gillerans Pond Beach6 mi
- Steers Beach6 mi
- Flynns Beach7 mi
- YWCA Beach7 mi
- Spring Lake Beach7 mi
- Slacks Pond Beach8 mi
- Mountaindale Beach8 mi