White House, District of Columbia

Unit of the national park system in District of Columbia

62° 82°/60°

Light drizzle· Feels like 62°·Light breeze 5 mph S

Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (52%).

Now. White House is 62° and light drizzle at 4 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (56%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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.

0UV Low

22Air quality

96%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

4:00 AM

62feels62

Today

Oct 16

8260

86%

16mph

Sat

Oct 17

5450

56%

18mph

Sun

Oct 18

5739

13mph

Mon

Oct 19

6042

24%

14mph

Tue

Oct 20

6547

15%

14mph

Wed

Oct 21

6651

14mph

Thu

Oct 22

6451

13%

13mph

62°

82°60°

54°50°

57°39°

60°42°

65°47°

66°51°

64°51°

As of 4:00 AM in White House, District of Columbia.

Air quality

The air at White House

Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 2 miles off.

22Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good2.1 mi
Ozone17Good15 ppb2.1 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-9.4 mi
Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.7 ppb2.1 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb13.8 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm2.1 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.

GoodModerate

23YesterdayOct 15
33TodayOct 16
17SatOct 17
28SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at White House

0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.09in
Last 3 days: 0.09in

Visibility

How far you can see at White House, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 7 PM.

Park

Designation: Unit of the national park system
Area: 719,000 sq ft
Height at its point: 47 ft
County: -
State: District of Columbia
Latitude: 38.8971° N
Longitude: 77.0365° W

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest White House, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 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/2.5 mi away/68 ft/21 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Washington 1.0 WDC-DC-22

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/84 ft/37 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

National ArboretumNARD2