Temperature
61 F at 12 AM; 74 F at its warmest, 2 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 61F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 74F
- 2 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 94% around 12 AM.
Now. St. Mary's County Regional Airport is 61° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (98%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in St. Mary's County Regional Airport, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 4,150 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 103° / 283° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Leonardtown (2W6), St. Mary's County Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 12 AM; 74 F at its warmest, 2 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 82% at 11 AM Thursday to 100% at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 7 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 1 PM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,100 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Leonardtown: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest St. Mary's County Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Leonardtown2W6
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/142 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MD 4 South at MD 235MD098
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/131 ft/11 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BlackwaterBLWM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.3 mi away/0 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
California 3.9 WNWMD-SM-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/138 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SolomonsSOLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/20 ft/122 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.