Bishops HeadNDBC-BISM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 4 AM (65%).
Now. Mount Vernon Beach is 63° and rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (93%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Mount Vernon Beach, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lower Eastern Shore (MD), 32 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 17 or under.
Precipitation
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NW 316°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Vernon Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Bishops HeadNDBC-BISM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW1751GW1751
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/32 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/56 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/52 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Princess Anne 1.9 WSWMD-SS-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/12 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Princess AnnePRAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/16 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.