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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandy Point Beach, Virginia
Beach in Westmoreland County, VirginiaGale Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, west winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 2 to 4 ft expected. For the Gale Watch, north winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and waves 3 to 6 ft possible. * WHERE...Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point MD to Smith Point VA, Tidal Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA, and Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island. * WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 9 AM Friday to 6 AM EDT Saturday. For the Gale Watch, from Saturday morning through late Saturday night. * IMPACTS...Strong winds can cause hazardous waves which could capsize or damage vessels.
Mariners should consider altering plans to avoid possible hazardous conditions. Remain in port, seek safe harbor, alter course, and/or secure the vessel for hazardous wind and waves.
62°
85°/60°
Light rain·
Feels like 62°·Light air 4 mph SE
Alert. A Gale Watch is in force for Sandy Point Beach until 6 AM Sunday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 93% around 1 AM.
Now. Sandy Point Beach is 62° and light rain at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely tomorrow (98%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
92%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
62feels62
19%
Today
Oct 16
8560
93%
Sat
Oct 17
5850
98%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5945
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6247
23%
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
6549
19%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6551
11%
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
6451
13%
12mph
62°
85°60°
58°50°
59°45°
62°47°
65°49°
65°51°
64°51°
As of 1:00 AM in Sandy Point Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Point Beach
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 25 miles off.
19Good
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 15
- 33TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy Point Beach
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Point Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing E 79°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Westmoreland County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.0712° N
- Longitude
- 76.5354° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sandy Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TappahannockXSA
At an airfield/24.4 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW6158CW6158
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.0 mi away/86 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hague 3.5 NEVA-WM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Warsaw 2NWWRWV2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 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 Sandy Point Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Heathsvillecommunity, 11 mi
- Warsawtown, 15 mi
- Montrosstown, 16 mi
- Tappahannocktown, 21 mi
- Lancastercommunity, 22 mi
- Kilmarnocktown, 27 mi
- Colonial Beachtown, 27 mi
- Irvingtontown, 29 mi
- Weemscommunity, 29 mi
- Urbannatown, 30 mi
- White Stonetown, 30 mi
- Saludacommunity, 32 mi
Beaches near Sandy Point Beach
- Ragged Point Beach6 mi
- Narrow Beach7 mi
- Cordreys Beach12 mi
- Marshalls Beach13 mi
- Fossil Beach19 mi
- Ginny Beach19 mi
- The Sands20 mi
- Wildwood Beach21 mi