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A cool, breezy start turned mild and partly sunny, going gray this evening; tonight's high tide could flood the most vulnerable coastal and bayside roads, with some closures possible until 10 PM.
Alerts · National Weather Service
This evening's high tide is the peak of the week's coastal flooding in Rehoboth Beach, with minor flooding on the most vulnerable coastal and bayside roads and moderate flooding possible in some back bays; the advisory runs until 10 PM. Waves of 10 feet or more just offshore will keep chewing at the beaches around high tide, and coastal gusts of 30 to 40 mph linger into the evening.
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Changed since yesterday
Holding steady — no day's high or rain chance moved since yesterday's edition.
Next five days · the Anecast forecast
| Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | 62° | 64° | 57° | 59° | 61° |
| Low | 48° | 52° | 50° | 49° | 48° |
| Precip | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Alerts |
The nor'easter gets shoved out to sea Thursday by a system dropping in from the northwest, but Thursday evening's high tide could still bring spotty to widespread minor flooding, lower than tonight's. Thursday's forecast high is 64° under sun with a brisk north-northwest breeze.
Lewes reached 66° Tuesday, warmer than 91% of Monday's weather models, which centered near 65°; the official gauge at Georgetown, inland, hit 69°. The peak gust of 31 mph also ran stronger than 85% of those models.
Around Rehoboth Beach · Tuesday
Lewes, 4.9 miles away and the station that grades Rehoboth Beach's forecast, read a high of 66°; the official gauge at Georgetown - Delaware Coastal hit 70°, 4° hotter.
| Station | Miles | High | Usual gap | Rain (at least) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewes · grades the forecast | 4.9 | 66° | 0° | — |
| Georgetown - Delaware Coastal Airport · official gauge | 15.6 | 70° | 0° | — |
| Cape May | 18.2 | 70° | -3° | — |
| Brandywine Shoal Light | 18.5 | 66° | -3° | — |
| Cape May County Airport | 22.2 | 70° | 0° | — |
| Ocean City | 28.5 | 66° | 0° | — |
The scorecard · this week›
| Observed | Anecast | NWS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| forecast | miss | forecast | miss | |||
| Mon | high | 62° | ✓ 61° | −1° | 60° | −2° |
| rain | 0.0 in | ✓ 0.0 in | in range | 13% | % only | |
| Tue | high | 66° | ✓ 66° | 0° | 65° | −1° |
| rain | 0.0 in | ✓ 0.0 in | in range | 4% | % only | |
the last 4 days averaged -5° against normal · October so far: 2.24 inches of rain, 0.46 below normal · since Jan 1: 32.40 inches of rain, 3.41 below normal
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