At an airfield/9.1 mi away/479 ft/392 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Haystack State Park, Maine
State Park in Aroostook County, Maine* WHAT...West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...Central Piscataquis, Northern Penobscot, Southeast Aroostook, Northeast Aroostook, Northwest Aroostook, Northern Somerset, and Northern Piscataquis Counties. * WHEN...From 8 AM this morning to 5 PM EDT this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. Strong winds will also create wind chills as low as 10 to 20 degrees on mountain tops.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
39°
52°/33°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 31°·Moderate breeze 13 mph W
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Haystack State Park until 5 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Haystack State Park is 39° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 62°, and the coolest Saturday, near 52°. Rain is likely Thursday (61%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 16% lit, and rises at 3:02 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 26 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
72%Humidity
63%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
39feels31
13mph
Today
Oct 6
5233
23mph
Wed
Oct 7
5428
17%
12mph
Thu
Oct 8
6140
61%
13mph
Fri
Oct 9
5535
16%
Sat
Oct 10
5229
13%
Sun
Oct 11
6029
11%
Mon
Oct 12
6240
25%
39°
52°33°
54°28°
61°40°
55°35°
52°29°
60°29°
62°40°
As of 3:00 AM in Haystack State Park, Maine.
Air quality
The air at Haystack State Park
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Northern (ME), 43 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)2Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 10, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
- GoodThuOct 8
- GoodFriOct 9
- GoodSatOct 10
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Haystack State Park
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Tue 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 Haystack State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Wed 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.33 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 871 ft
- County
- Aroostook County
- State
- Maine
- Latitude
- 46.6732° N
- Longitude
- 68.2362° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Haystack State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station CW7595CW7595
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/649 ft/222 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Aroostook River AT MasardisMASM1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.2 mi away/535 ft/336 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rt.1A NB Fort Fairfield102698
Beside a road/17.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Limestone 4 NNW94645
At a climate reference station/26.0 mi away/737 ft/134 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Castle Hill 1.1 SME-AR-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/754 ft/117 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Presque Isle HilltopPRQM1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/645 ft/226 ft below 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 Presque Isle Hilltop (PRQM1), 11.5 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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