Golf courses/Maryland/Gunpowder Golf Course

Gunpowder Golf Course, Maryland

Golf course in Montgomery County, Maryland

44° 82°/57°

Overcast· Feels like 40°·Light breeze 6 mph SSW

Alert. A Test Message is in force for Gunpowder Golf Course until 7:05 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 62% around 8 PM.

Now. Gunpowder Golf Course is 44° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 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%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 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.

0UV Low

14Air quality

97%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

7:00 AM

44feels40

Today

Oct 16

8257

91%

Sat

Oct 17

5446

46%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

5637

Mon

Oct 19

5840

21%

Tue

Oct 20

6444

14%

Wed

Oct 21

6448

10%

Thu

Oct 22

6348

12%

44°

82°57°

54°46°

56°37°

58°40°

64°44°

64°48°

63°48°

As of 7:00 AM in Gunpowder Golf Course, Maryland.

Air quality

The air at Gunpowder Golf Course

Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 5 miles off.

14Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)3Good10.2 mi
Ozone14Good11 ppb3.3 mi
Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.7 ppb3.3 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb3.3 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm3.3 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.

GoodModerate

21YesterdayOct 15
39TodayOct 16
17SatOct 17
28SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Gunpowder Golf Course

0.08 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.08in
Last 3 days: 0.08in

Visibility

How far you can see at Gunpowder Golf Course, the next 44 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 7 PM.

Golf course

Area: 0.16 sq mi
County: Montgomery County
State: Maryland
Latitude: 39.0887° N
Longitude: 76.9225° W

Course map

Gunpowder Golf Course and the streets round it, north up. The sheet is 7,152 ft across; the bar is 1,500 ft.5,722 ft across; the bar is 1,000 ft. Inside its outline the map files 17 fairways, 18 greens, 26 tees, 15 bunkers and 2 water hazards. Fairways are ruled, greens ruled in blue, bunkers stippled and water in level lines; the course is outlined in blue. Sources

What is measuring near here

The 7 instruments nearest Gunpowder Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.

measured now5 instruments

Citizen station FW9340FW9340

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/364 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

I 95 S - past MD 212MD003

Beside a road/3.1 mi away/184 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2

A remote fire weather station/5.8 mi away/215 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Powder MillS2049

At a soil climate station/6.3 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here