I-70 at Frederick / Wash. Co lineMD015
Beside a road/0.5 mi away/1,202 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 70° after 61° today.
Now. South Mountain State Park is 45° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. Rain is possible Sunday (35%) and Monday (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 16% lit, and rises at 3:52 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 35 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in South Mountain State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest South Mountain State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 at Frederick / Wash. Co lineMD015
Beside a road/0.5 mi away/1,202 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW3881FW3881
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,700 ft/518 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/476 ft/706 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Camp DavidRSP
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/1,841 ft/659 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Myersville 2.2 NNWMD-FR-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,092 ft/90 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hagerstown 1EHGCM2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/541 ft/641 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.