I-70 at MD-27MD017
Beside a road/1.9 mi away/811 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Maryland/Rattlewood Golf Course
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Rattlewood Golf Course until 8:25 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 80° today.
Now. Rattlewood Golf Course is 60° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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. 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Rattlewood Golf Course, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Rattlewood Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-70 at MD-27MD017
Beside a road/1.9 mi away/811 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7571GW7571
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/781 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Tenmile Creek Precip Gage At Clarksburg391407077174001
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.1 mi away/599 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/302 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/29.0 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Airy 0.6 WSWMD-FR-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/779 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Damascus 3 SSWDMAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/676 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
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.