PLAINFIELD - I395NB - At Plainfi CT US CTDOTCT028
Beside a road/1.4 mi away/362 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Connecticut/Quinebaug Lake State Park
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (57%).
Now. Quinebaug Lake State Park is 67° and overcast at 3 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 7 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Quinebaug Lake State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Western (RI), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.35 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.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Quinebaug Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PLAINFIELD - I395NB - At Plainfi CT US CTDOTCT028
Beside a road/1.4 mi away/362 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW7448CW7448
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/475 ft/246 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quinebaug River 2 SSW West Thompson LakeWTHC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/322 ft/93 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/249 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Danielson 3.2 ESECT-WN-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/591 ft/362 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HamptonHMTC3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/538 ft/309 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.