Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 63% around 8 PM.
Now. Fort Meade Executive Airport is 53° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (46%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Fort Meade Executive Airport, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Metro Baltimore (MD), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 3,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 94° / 274° | 1 mph head, on 10 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Fort Meade (FME), Fort Meade Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 6 PM Thursday; 65 F at its warmest, 6 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 9 AM Thursday to 100% at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the south southeast at 5 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 7 AM Thursday, with a gust of 18 mph at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 5 AM, falling 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 12 AM; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 2 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
Fort Meade: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Fort Meade Executive 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 now4 instruments
Fort MeadeFME
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/151 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MD-175 at MD-295MD031
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/164 ft/14 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/4.0 mi away/215 ft/65 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/6.8 mi away/105 ft/45 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Laurel 3.9 EMD-AA-90
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/164 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/138 ft/12 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.