Belmar USGS weather station401108074013401
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Jersey/Avon-by-the-Sea
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Avon-by-the-Sea until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 70% around 2 AM.
Now. Avon-by-the-Sea is 74° and clear at 6 PM. The dew point is 74°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 6 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (79%). Rain is possible Monday (30%) and Thursday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Monmouth County (NJ), 16 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Avon-by-the-Sea, New JerseyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Avon-by-the-Sea, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Belmar USGS weather station401108074013401
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4858GW4858
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/36 ft/25 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/157 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Belmar 0.8 NENJ-MN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/9 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ManasquanMSQN4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/26 ft/15 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.0 mi from Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 74.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Belmar-Farmdale, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Manasquan (MSQN4), 4.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.