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At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
The Sands, Virginia
Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia61°
67°/61°
Overcast·
Feels like 61°·Light air 4 mph ESE
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow night, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 94% around 11 PM.
Now. The Sands is 61° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 61°, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 84°, and the coolest Saturday, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%) and Saturday (98%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
88%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
61feels61
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6761
57%
Fri
Oct 16
8461
94%
Sat
Oct 17
5750
98%
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
5844
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6145
20%
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6548
17%
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
6551
10%
12mph
61°
67°61°
84°61°
57°50°
58°44°
61°45°
65°48°
65°51°
As of 10:00 PM in The Sands, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at The Sands
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 16 miles off.
15Good
- Ozone15Good4 ppb23.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 14
- 50TodayOct 15
- 33FriOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 22SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Sands
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 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 The Sands, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing NNE 33°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Beach
- County
- Westmoreland County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.1735° N
- Longitude
- 76.8789° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest The Sands, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
TappahannockXSA
At an airfield/21.7 mi away/135 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2888FW2888
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.3 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/2.7 mi away/160 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Warsaw 2NWWRWV2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/143 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near The Sands
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Montrosstown, 6 mi
- Colonial Beachtown, 8 mi
- Dahlgren Centercommunity, 14 mi
- Dahlgrencommunity, 15 mi
- Warsawtown, 16 mi
- Port Royaltown, 17 mi
- Tappahannocktown, 17 mi
- King Georgecommunity, 19 mi
- Fairview Beachcommunity, 22 mi
- Passapatanzycommunity, 25 mi
- Bowling Greentown, 27 mi
- Heathsvillecommunity, 28 mi
Beaches near The Sands
- Fossil Beach1 mi
- Narrow Beach14 mi
- Ragged Point Beach15 mi
- Sandy Point Beach20 mi
- Wildwood Beach26 mi
- Aquia Landing Beach Park28 mi
- Cordreys Beach31 mi
- Marshalls Beach32 mi