Yorktown Beach, Virginia

Beach in York County, Virginia

67° 86°/64°

Overcast· Feels like 67°·Light air 1 mph SSE

Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 73% around 9 AM.

Now. Yorktown Beach is 67° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southeast at 1 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 8 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

51Air quality

87%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

3:00 AM

67feels67

Today

Oct 16

8664

72%

13mph

Sat

Oct 17

6052

94%

17mph

Sun

Oct 18

6147

22%

18mph

Mon

Oct 19

6450

25%

16mph

Tue

Oct 20

6852

17%

13mph

Wed

Oct 21

6853

13%

15mph

Thu

Oct 22

6754

15%

12mph

67°

86°64°

60°52°

61°47°

64°50°

68°52°

68°53°

67°54°

As of 3:00 AM in Yorktown Beach, Virginia.

Air quality

The air at Yorktown Beach

Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 22 miles off.

51Moderate

Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
Ozone22Good-
Coarse particles (PM10)23Good-

The days ahead

Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.

GoodModerate

55YesterdayOct 15
53TodayOct 16

Smoke, the next 42 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Yorktown Beach

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 Yorktown Beach, the next 42 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.

Looking NE from the sand at 3:18 AM, night, overcast, waves about 2.0 ft every 9 s.

Facing NE 35°

From above: the edge, the break, the view

Beach

County: York County
State: Virginia
Latitude: 37.2390° N
Longitude: 76.5080° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Yorktown Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

Yorktown USCG Training CenterNDBC-YKTV2

At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station GW0631GW0631

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Newport NewsPHF

At an airfield/7.4 mi away/43 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Cape Charles 5 ENE03739

At a climate reference station/32.5 mi away/29 ft/- ft from here