Waquoit Bay ReserveWAXM3
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/16 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Massachusetts/Seconsett Island
Coming up. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 69° today.
Now. Seconsett Island is 58° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:48 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Seconsett Island, Massachusetts.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Cape Cod and Islands (MA), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 7 PM, under a mile for 7 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Seconsett Island, MassachusettsReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Seconsett Island, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Waquoit Bay ReserveWAXM3
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/16 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6058EW6058
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/55 ft/43 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Otis ANGBFMH
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/131 ft/119 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sagamore Rt 6MA037
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/129 ft/117 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
East Falmouth 1.4 ESEMA-BA-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/16 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Vineyard HavenVYHM3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/-15 ft/27 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Seconsett Island, Massachusetts. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 51.8 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the south southeast (160 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Otis ANGB, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.