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Surfing Beach, Virginia

Beach in Virginia Beach city, Virginia

Air quality

The air at Surfing Beach

Index 66, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 30 miles off.

66Moderate
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)66Moderate-
  • Ozone36Good-
  • Coarse particles (PM10)24Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.

SatSun

Precipitation

What has fallen at Surfing Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 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 Surfing Beach, the next 45 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 9 AM.

SatSun
Surfing Beach from its sand, nowLooking ENE from the sand at 12:42 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 1.8 ft every 8 s.50607080Facing ENE 67°Wind 8 mphfrom SW, offshoreSwell 1.8 ft from ELongshore current, to the left
Looking ENE from the sand at 12:42 AM, night, partly cloudy, waves about 1.8 ft every 8 s.
NESW

Facing ENE 67°

300 ft

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Surf and swim

The waves at buoy 44056, 42.6 mi away.

Waves at buoy 44056, Duck FRF

Wave height
2.3 ft
Period
8 s
From
E (80°)
Swell
1.0 ft at 10 s from E
Wind waves
2.3 ft at 8 s from E
Water
71 °F
Read
Sat 12:00 AM
Distance
42.6 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.

Wave height at buoy 44056, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.0 ft to 4.9 ft; 2.3 ft at Sat 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ft6 AMNoon6 PMFri6 AMNoon6 PM2.3 ftWave height at buoy 44056, last 48 hoursSignificant wave height from 1.0 ft to 4.9 ft; 2.3 ft at Sat 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.0 ft2 ft4 ft6 ftNoonFriNoon2.3 ft
Significant wave height from 1.0 ft to 4.9 ft; 2.3 ft at Sat 12:00 AM. Arrows show the way the waves travel.
Every hour, last 24 hours
TimeWave heightPeriodFrom
Sat 12:00 AM2.3 ft8 sE (80°)
Fri 11:30 PM2.3 ft10 sE (86°)
Fri 10:30 PM2.3 ft8 sE (90°)
Fri 9:30 PM2.6 ft10 sE (82°)
Fri 8:30 PM2.6 ft10 sE (88°)
Fri 7:00 PM3.0 ft4 sSE (145°)
Fri 6:30 PM3.0 ft4 sSE (146°)
Fri 5:30 PM2.6 ft8 sENE (72°)
Fri 4:30 PM2.3 ft10 sE (83°)
Fri 3:30 PM2.0 ft6 sNE (40°)
Fri 2:30 PM2.0 ft9 sE (88°)
Fri 1:30 PM2.0 ft9 sE (86°)
Fri 12:30 PM2.3 ft6 sNE (50°)
Fri 11:30 AM2.3 ft6 sNE (49°)
Fri 10:30 AM2.6 ft6 sNE (47°)
Fri 9:30 AM2.6 ft6 sNE (44°)
Fri 8:30 AM2.6 ft6 sNE (47°)
Fri 7:30 AM3.0 ft7 sNE (45°)
Fri 6:30 AM3.0 ft6 sNE (46°)
Fri 5:30 AM3.0 ft8 sENE (78°)
Fri 4:30 AM3.3 ft7 sNE (45°)
Fri 3:30 AM3.6 ft7 sNE (44°)
Fri 2:30 AM3.3 ft7 sNE (41°)
Fri 1:30 AM3.6 ft7 sNE (37°)

Beach

City
Virginia Beach city
State
Virginia
Latitude
36.7853° N
Longitude
75.9577° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Surfing Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Citizen station EW1337EW1337

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/6 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Oceana NAS/SoucekNTU

At an airfield/4.9 mi away/23 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Cape Charles 5 ENE03739

At a climate reference station/34.9 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/2.9 mi away/4 ft/- ft from here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

NorfolkNFKV2

At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Norfolk (NFKV2), 16.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 23:59. measured daily

Elsewhere in Virginia

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Near Surfing Beach

The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.

Near Surfing Beach