Temperature
60 F at 5 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 56 F at its coolest, 4 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 60F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 60F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 56F
- 4 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 6 PM (50%).
Now. Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field is 60° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the south at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.09 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 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 3,165 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 15° / 195° | 12 mph head, on 20 | 5 mph from the left |
| 09 / 27 | 7,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 80° / 260° | 0 mph head, on 09 | 13 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Hagerstown Regional (HGR), Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
60 F at 5 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 56 F at its coolest, 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 67% at 12 PM Thursday to 96% at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the south at 5 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 3 AM, with a gust of 21 mph at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.94 inHg at 5 AM, falling 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.23 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 4 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.09 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Hagerstown Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Hagerstown Regional Richard A Henson Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/705 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
IS 81 SB at Showalter RoadMD133
Beside a road/0.9 mi away/666 ft/37 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Catoctin Mountain Raws Near Foxville 1NeFOXM2
A remote fire weather station/13.1 mi away/1,453 ft/750 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hagerstown Regional AirportKHGR
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/687 ft/16 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hagerstown 4.1 NNWMD-WH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/605 ft/98 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.