Parks/District of Columbia/Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, District of Columbia

National Memorial in District of Columbia

63° 65°/61°

Light rain· Feels like 63°·Light breeze 5 mph SE

Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 83° after 65° today.

Now. Vietnam Veterans Memorial is 63° and light rain at 10 PM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 61°, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 83°, and the coolest Saturday, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%) and Saturday (70%).

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

25Air quality

85%Humidity

97%Cloud

Now

10:00 PM

63feels63

11%

Today

Oct 15

6561

45%

Fri

Oct 16

8361

78%

16mph

Sat

Oct 17

5551

70%

19mph

Sun

Oct 18

5840

12mph

Mon

Oct 19

6143

12%

15mph

Tue

Oct 20

6647

11%

15mph

Wed

Oct 21

6650

13mph

63°

65°61°

83°61°

55°51°

58°40°

61°43°

66°47°

66°50°

As of 10:00 PM in Vietnam Veterans Memorial, District of Columbia.

Air quality

The air at Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 3 miles off.

25Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good-
Ozone22Good15 ppb3 mi
Nitrogen dioxide6Good6.7 ppb3 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb14.7 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.4 ppm3 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.

GoodModerate

56YesterdayOct 14
44TodayOct 15
33FriOct 16
17SatOct 17
28SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 41 hours

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

Precipitation

What has fallen at Vietnam Veterans Memorial

0.03 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.03in
Last 3 days: 0.03in

Visibility

How far you can see at Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.

Park

Designation: National Memorial
Area: 71,100 sq ft
Height at its point: 14 ft
County: -
State: District of Columbia
Latitude: 38.8910° N
Longitude: 77.0476° W

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Vietnam Veterans Memorial, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

WashingtonNDBC-WASD2

At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/-/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Citizen station FW1341FW1341

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/68 ft/54 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Washington 1.0 WDC-DC-22

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/84 ft/70 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

National ArboretumNARD2