WashingtonNDBC-WASD2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/District of Columbia/World War I Memorial
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (54%).
Now. World War I Memorial is 61° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (70%).
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.
As of 2:00 AM in World War I Memorial, District of Columbia.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest World War I Memorial, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
WashingtonNDBC-WASD2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW1341FW1341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/68 ft/49 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Washington 1.0 WDC-DC-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/84 ft/65 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
National ArboretumNARD2
In a park or preserve/3.6 mi away/13 ft/6 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
3 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.