Fenwick Island, DE Weather Forecast and Current Conditions (19944)
Feels Like 75°F
Current Weather
Feels Like 75°F
Forecast at a Glance
This Date in Weather History
1970 - A lightning bolt struck a group of football players at Gibbs High School in Saint Petersburg FL, killing two persons and injuring 22 others. All the thirty-eight players and four coaches were knocked off their feet.
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Fenwick Island 7 Day Weather Forecast Details
Sunday Sep 7
Day: A chance of rain showers before 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 70. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. North wind 5 to 10 mph. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Monday Sep 8
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 71. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Tuesday Sep 9
Day: A slight chance of rain showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Night: A chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a low around 67. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Wednesday Sep 10
Day: A chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Night: A chance of rain showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Thursday Sep 11
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 66.
Friday Sep 12
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63.
Saturday Sep 13
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.
Sun & Moon Monthly
Sunrise 6:35 AM
Sunset 7:24 PM
Last Light 7:51 PM
Moonset 6:13 AM
Close Tide Stations
Keydash, Isle of Wight Bay
(8.5 miles away)
Ocean City (Isle of Wight Bay)
(9.3 miles away)
Ocean City Inlet
(9.5 miles away)
Weather Near Fenwick Island
Contiguous United States Extremes
Sat's High Temperature
110 at Death Valley, CA and Stovepipe Wells, CA
Sat's Low Temperature
23 at 16 Miles West Of Redfeather Lakes, CO
Weather Folklore
If the goose honks high, fair weather; If the goose honks low, foul weather.
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About Fenwick Island, Delaware
Fenwick Island is a coastal resort town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to 2020 census figures, the population of the town is 355, a 2.6% decrease over the last decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland–Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is located on Fenwick Island, a barrier spit.
Fenwick Island and its neighbors to the north, Bethany Beach and South Bethany, are popularly known as "The Quiet Resorts." This is in contrast to the wild atmosphere of Dewey Beach and the cosmopolitan bustle of Rehoboth Beach. Fenwick Island, however, is somewhat less "quiet" than "the Bethanies" because it is immediately across the state line from Ocean City, Maryland, which has a reputation as a lively vacation resort.
Named after Thomas Fenwick, a planter from England who settled in Maryland, Fenwick Island lay in the part of Delaware which Lord Baltimore and his heirs claimed during the Penn–Baltimore border dispute.
Contrary to popular belief, the town does not sit on a barrier island but on a narrow peninsula which resembles a barrier island (unless one considers a narrow man-made boat canal well inland that connects White Creek to Little Assawoman Bay). The narrow strip of land separates the Atlantic Ocean from Little Assawoman Bay. Ocean City, Maryland, occupies the southern tip of this peninsula.
Local legend states that Cedar Island in Little Assawoman Bay was a spot for pirates to bury treasure. Regardless of the truth of the legend, the Delaware coastal area was well known as a place for pirates to hide from the law. Cedar Island has just about washed under the bay, as Seal Island did around 2010.
The town was an unincorporated area between South Bethany and Ocean City, Maryland, until July 1953, when the Delaware General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the town. Local sentiment demanded incorporation to prevent the relentless high-rise development of Ocean City from creeping north into Fenwick Island.
Fenwick Island's population was 48 in 1960.
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