Met Station At Red Wing Park At Dam Neck364728075591900
At a dam/1.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shifting Sands Beach, Virginia
Beach in Virginia Beach city, Virginia67°
86°/66°
Overcast·
Feels like 67°·Light air 3 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 1 AM, the chance peaking at 71% around 3 AM.
Now. Shifting Sands Beach is 67° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 8 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (88%). Rain is possible Monday (36%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 28 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
88%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
67feels67
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8666
52%
14mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6355
88%
26mph
Sun
Oct 18
6351
29%
28mph
Mon
Oct 19
6655
36%
26mph
Tue
Oct 20
6755
22%
21mph
Wed
Oct 21
6756
19%
24mph
Thu
Oct 22
6756
20%
20mph
67°
86°66°
63°55°
63°51°
66°55°
67°55°
67°56°
67°56°
As of 12:00 AM in Shifting Sands Beach, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Shifting Sands Beach
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 30 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good-
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 15
- 53TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Shifting Sands 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 Shifting Sands Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing ENE 76°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 44056, 42.4 mi away.
Waves at buoy 44056, Duck FRF
- Wave height
- 4.3 ft
- Period
- 6 s
- From
- NE (41°)
- Swell
- 0.7 ft at 10 s from E
- Wind waves
- 3.9 ft at 7 s from NE
- Water
- 71 °F
- Read
- Fri 12:00 AM
- Distance
- 42.4 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 12:00 AM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NE (41°) |
| Thu 11:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 7 s | NE (42°) |
| Thu 10:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (45°) |
| Thu 9:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 7 s | NE (46°) |
| Thu 8:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NE (34°) |
| Thu 7:00 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 6:30 PM | 4.9 ft | 6 s | NNE (29°) |
| Thu 5:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (25°) |
| Thu 4:30 PM | 4.6 ft | 6 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 3:30 PM | 4.3 ft | 6 s | NNE (14°) |
| Thu 2:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 5 s | NNE (13°) |
| Thu 1:30 PM | 3.9 ft | 4 s | NNE (23°) |
| Thu 12:30 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | NNE (20°) |
| Thu 11:30 AM | 2.0 ft | 3 s | N (7°) |
| Thu 10:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (92°) |
| Thu 9:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (96°) |
| Thu 8:30 AM | 1.0 ft | 8 s | E (88°) |
| Thu 7:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (76°) |
| Thu 6:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (103°) |
| Thu 5:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | E (94°) |
| Thu 4:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | ENE (77°) |
| Thu 3:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (103°) |
| Thu 2:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 9 s | E (90°) |
| Thu 1:30 AM | 1.3 ft | 8 s | ESE (104°) |
Beach
- City
- Virginia Beach city
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 36.7822° N
- Longitude
- 75.9568° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Shifting Sands Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW1337EW1337
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.0 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cape Charles 5 ENE03739
At a climate reference station/35.1 mi away/29 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Virginia Beach 3.1 ENEVA-VBC-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NorfolkNFKV2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.2 mi away/30 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 Norfolk (NFKV2), 16.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Shifting Sands Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Virginia Beachcity, 5 mi
- Chesapeakecity, 18 mi
- Norfolkcity, 19 mi
- Portsmouthcity, 22 mi
- Hamptoncity, 29 mi
- Carrolltoncommunity, 34 mi
- Suffolkcity, 34 mi
- Cape Charlestown, 34 mi
- Bethel Manorcommunity, 34 mi
- Poquosoncity, 34 mi
- Cheritontown, 35 mi
- Benns Churchcommunity, 37 mi
Beaches near Shifting Sands Beach
- Surfing Beachunder 1 mi
- Seabreeze Beachunder 1 mi
- Fishing & Dog Beachunder 1 mi
- Sandbridge Beach3 mi
- Bay Colony Dog Beach7 mi
- Sylvan Beach12 mi
- Chesapeake Beach Park13 mi
- Chix Beach14 mi