Quinnipiac River AT WallingfordWALC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/39 ft/282 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/Connecticut/Sleeping Giant State Park
Sleeping Giant State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...In Connecticut, Northern Fairfield, Northern Middlesex, Northern New Haven, and Northern New London Counties. In New Jersey, Western Passaic County. In New York, Orange and Putnam Counties. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops and other sensitive vegetation.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
49°
50°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sleeping Giant State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sleeping Giant State Park is 49° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:58 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
-UV
19Air quality
65%Humidity
93%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
49feels45
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
5042
overcast
Sun
Oct 18
5532
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5936
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6340
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
5943
15mph
Thu
Oct 22
5839
12%
14mph
Fri
Oct 23
6142
12%
12mph
49°
50°42°
55°32°
59°36°
63°40°
59°43°
58°39°
61°42°
As of 3:00 AM in Sleeping Giant State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Sleeping Giant State Park
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, New Haven (CT), 7 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles.
GoodModerate
- 17TodayOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 28MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sleeping Giant State Park
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.50in
- Last 3 days
- 0.50in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sleeping Giant State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.53 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 321 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.4345° N
- Longitude
- 72.8696° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sleeping Giant State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
NORTH HAVEN - Rt15NB - At Rest A CT US CTDOTCT024
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/27 ft/294 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2327GW2327
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/322 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Meriden Markham Muni AirportMMK
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/102 ft/219 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wallingford Center 1.9 WNWCT-NH-44
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/321 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount CarmelMTCC3
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/184 ft/137 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Connecticut
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Near Sleeping Giant State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Powder Ridgeski area, 8 mi
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