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Beside a road/1.6 mi away/362 ft/34 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Connecticut/Ross Pond State Park
Ross Pond State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut52°
68°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 57% around 9 PM.
Now. Ross Pond State Park is 52° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (81%). 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.
0UV Low
8Air quality
79%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
52feels52
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
6845
96%
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
5142
81%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5432
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5836
10%
Tue
Oct 20
6241
14%
Wed
Oct 21
6043
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
5842
partly cloudy day
52°
68°45°
51°42°
54°32°
58°36°
62°41°
60°43°
58°42°
As of 7:00 AM in Ross Pond State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Ross Pond State Park
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Western (RI), 10 miles off.
8Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good13.8 mi
- Ozone5Good2 ppb13.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 32SatOct 17
- 11SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ross Pond State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ross Pond State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.12 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 396 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.7759° N
- Longitude
- 71.8688° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Ross Pond State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW7448CW7448
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/475 ft/79 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quinebaug River 2 SSW West Thompson LakeWTHC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.8 mi away/322 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/249 ft/147 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Danielson 3.2 ESECT-WN-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/591 ft/195 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HamptonHMTC3
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/538 ft/142 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 Hampton (HMTC3), 9.6 miles from here, read 6 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Connecticut
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Ross Pond State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- East Brooklyncommunity, 2 mi
- Danielsonborough, 2 mi
- Wauregancommunity, 3 mi
- Moosupcommunity, 4 mi
- Brooklyncommunity, 4 mi
- Dayvillecommunity, 5 mi
- Plainfield Villagecommunity, 7 mi
- Putnamcommunity, 10 mi
- South Woodstockcommunity, 12 mi
- Quasset Lakecommunity, 12 mi
- Mechanicsvillecommunity, 13 mi
- Jewett Cityborough, 13 mi