US-50 at ChoptankMD004
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 65% around 3 AM.
Now. Highlys Beach is 62° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (97%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 2:00 AM in Highlys Beach, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lower Eastern Shore (MD), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing SSE 162°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Highlys Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US-50 at ChoptankMD004
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/0 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CambridgeNDBC-CAMM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW1706CW1706
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/10 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CambridgeCGE
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/19 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cambridge 1.8 NNWMD-DR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/15 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Royal Oak 2SSWROYM2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/5 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.