UNION - Route 171 at Bigelow Hol CT US CTDOTCT041
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/659 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Connecticut/Bigelow Hollow State Park
Bigelow Hollow State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut66°
68°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 66°·Gentle breeze 9 mph SSW
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (66%).
Now. Bigelow Hollow State Park is 66° and overcast at 4 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 9 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:53 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
26Air quality
90%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
66feels66
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
6842
97%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
4840
13%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5228
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5532
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5937
11%
Wed
Oct 21
5841
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
5639
16%
13mph
66°
68°42°
48°40°
52°28°
55°32°
59°37°
58°41°
56°39°
As of 4:00 PM in Bigelow Hollow State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Bigelow Hollow State Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Stafford (CT), 13 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-24.5 mi
- Ozone26Good26 ppb22.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-24.6 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide8Good9 ppb24.5 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb24.5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm24.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- 17TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 22MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bigelow Hollow State Park
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.29in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bigelow Hollow State Park, the next 41 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.77 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 702 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 42.0100° N
- Longitude
- 72.1329° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bigelow Hollow State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW7731DW7731
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/859 ft/157 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quinebaug River 2 SSW West Thompson LakeWTHC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/322 ft/380 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/249 ft/453 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stafford Springs 5.2 ENECT-TL-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,014 ft/312 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
StafordvilleSFVC3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/709 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Stafordville (SFVC3), 6.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 05:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Connecticut
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Near Bigelow Hollow State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lake Bungeecommunity, 5 mi
- Witches Woodscommunity, 5 mi
- Lake Chaffeecommunity, 6 mi
- Stafford Springscommunity, 10 mi
- Quinebaugcommunity, 10 mi
- Quasset Lakecommunity, 10 mi
- South Woodstockcommunity, 11 mi
- North Grosvenor Dalecommunity, 12 mi
- Putnamcommunity, 13 mi
- Mechanicsvillecommunity, 13 mi
- Crystal Lakecommunity, 14 mi
- Storrscommunity, 15 mi