Parks/Connecticut/Brainard Homestead State Park

Brainard Homestead State Park, Connecticut

State Park in Connecticut

58° 70°/49°

Rain· Feels like 58°·Light breeze 6 mph S

Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 65% around 9 PM.

Now. Brainard Homestead State Park is 58° and rain at 8 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:56 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

24Air quality

98%Humidity

98%Cloud

Now

8:00 AM

58feels58

11%

Today

Oct 16

7049

99%

12mph

Sat

Oct 17

5345

21%

12mph

Sun

Oct 18

5535

Mon

Oct 19

5939

Tue

Oct 20

6443

13%

Wed

Oct 21

6346

12mph

Thu

Oct 22

6044

58°

70°49°

53°45°

55°35°

59°39°

64°43°

63°46°

60°44°

As of 8:00 AM in Brainard Homestead State Park, Connecticut.

Air quality

The air at Brainard Homestead State Park

Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Hartford (CT), 23 miles off.

24Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good21.3 mi
Ozone22Good27 ppb23.4 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)10Good21.3 mi
Nitrogen dioxide6Good6.5 ppb23.4 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm23.7 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.

GoodModerate

29YesterdayOct 15
33TodayOct 16

Smoke, the next 43 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Brainard Homestead State Park

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Brainard Homestead State Park, the next 43 hours

Fog: visibility falls to 0.7 miles Fri 12 PM, under a mile for 1 hour.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 962,000 sq ft
Height at its point: 186 ft
County: -
State: Connecticut
Latitude: 41.4660° N
Longitude: 72.4637° W

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Brainard Homestead State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

HADDAM - 9SB - At Exit 8CT031

Beside a road/3.4 mi away/190 ft/4 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Citizen station GW3910GW3910

In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/507 ft/321 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

ChesterSNC

At an airfield/6.1 mi away/416 ft/230 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Coginchaug River AT CoginchaugCOGC3

At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/154 ft/32 ft below here