Beside a road/0.9 mi away/302 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Shirley Povich Field until 1:13 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shirley Povich Field is 53° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the east-northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 35% lit, and rises at 1:22 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 41 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Shirley Povich Field, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 58, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.42 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Mon 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Shirley Povich Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/0.9 mi away/302 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/539 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/16.2 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/17.6 mi away/215 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Potomac 3.5 NEMD-MG-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/350 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.4 mi away/138 ft/- ft from 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.