DahlgrenNDBC-NCDV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fossil Beach, Virginia
Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia78°
84°/61°
Clear·
Feels like 78°·Light breeze 8 mph SSW
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 84% around 5 AM.
Now. Fossil Beach is 78° and clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 53° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (99%). Rain is possible Monday (42%), Tuesday (39%), Wednesday (31%) and Thursday (37%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
85%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
78feels78
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8461
94%
Sat
Oct 17
5648
99%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5844
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6046
42%
19mph
Tue
Oct 20
6449
39%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
6452
31%
15mph
Thu
Oct 22
6251
37%
15mph
78°
84°61°
56°48°
58°44°
60°46°
64°49°
64°52°
62°51°
As of 7:00 PM in Fossil Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Fossil Beach
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 15 miles off.
23Good
- Ozone23Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- 33TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
- 28MonOct 19
- 22TueOct 20
- 22WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fossil Beach
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Last 3 days
- 0.13in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 92%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fossil Beach, the next 44 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NNE 27°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Westmoreland County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.1669° N
- Longitude
- 76.8546° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fossil Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TappahannockXSA
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2888FW2888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/212 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stratford 0.5 NEVA-WM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/160 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Warsaw 2NWWRWV2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/143 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fossil Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Montrosstown, 5 mi
- Colonial Beachtown, 9 mi
- Dahlgren Centercommunity, 15 mi
- Warsawtown, 15 mi
- Dahlgrencommunity, 16 mi
- Tappahannocktown, 17 mi
- Port Royaltown, 18 mi
- King Georgecommunity, 20 mi
- Fairview Beachcommunity, 24 mi
- Passapatanzycommunity, 27 mi
- Heathsvillecommunity, 27 mi
- Bowling Greentown, 28 mi
Beaches near Fossil Beach
- The Sands1 mi
- Narrow Beach12 mi
- Ragged Point Beach13 mi
- Sandy Point Beach19 mi
- Wildwood Beach26 mi
- Aquia Landing Beach Park29 mi
- Cordreys Beach30 mi
- Marshalls Beach31 mi