Beside a road/2.9 mi away/190 ft/2 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Connecticut/Higganum Reservoir State Park
Higganum Reservoir State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...In Connecticut, Northern Fairfield, Northern Middlesex, Northern New Haven, and Northern New London Counties. In New Jersey, Western Passaic County. In New York, Orange and Putnam Counties. * WHEN...From 2 AM to 8 AM EDT Monday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
58°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Calm 0 mph
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Higganum Reservoir State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Higganum Reservoir State Park is 44° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest Saturday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 11:59 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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. The bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
87%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
44feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 18
5835
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6238
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6444
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
5943
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
6340
12%
12mph
Fri
Oct 23
5843
clear day
Sat
Oct 24
5738
clear day
44°
58°35°
62°38°
64°44°
59°43°
63°40°
58°43°
57°38°
As of 8:00 PM in Higganum Reservoir State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Higganum Reservoir State Park
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Hartford (CT), 21 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 17
- 22TodayOct 18
- 33MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Higganum Reservoir State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Higganum Reservoir State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Tue 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Tue 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 192 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.4887° N
- Longitude
- 72.5642° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Higganum Reservoir State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW2428DW2428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/376 ft/184 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coginchaug River AT CoginchaugCOGC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.7 mi away/154 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ChesterSNC
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/416 ft/224 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Higganum 0.7 NCT-MD-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/98 ft/94 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GuilfordGULC3
At a cooperative observer's station/15.1 mi away/24 ft/168 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Connecticut
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Higganum Reservoir State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Higganumcommunity, under 1 mi
- Connecticut Riverfeature, 4 mi
- Durhamcommunity, 6 mi
- Mooduscommunity, 7 mi
- Middletowncity, 7 mi
- East Hamptoncommunity, 7 mi
- Portlandcommunity, 7 mi
- Lake Pocotopaugcommunity, 8 mi
- Chester Centercommunity, 8 mi
- Powder Ridgeski area, 9 mi
- Deep River Centercommunity, 10 mi
- Terramugguscommunity, 11 mi