US 40 West of Mechanics Valley R MD US MDDOTMD114
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/79 ft/86 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Elk Creek State Park, Maryland
State Park in Cecil County, Maryland58°
80°/57°
Overcast·
Feels like 58°·Light breeze 6 mph SE
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 65% around 8 PM.
Now. Big Elk Creek State Park is 58° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (70%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
84%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
58feels58
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8057
80%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5446
70%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5737
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6040
13%
Tue
Oct 20
6644
12%
Wed
Oct 21
6547
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6346
mostly clear day
58°
80°57°
54°46°
57°37°
60°40°
66°44°
65°47°
63°46°
As of 12:00 AM in Big Elk Creek State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Big Elk Creek State Park
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Greater New Castle County (DE), 13 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good1.7 mi
- Ozone22Good20 ppb1.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-15 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb13 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 53YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Elk Creek State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.14in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Big Elk Creek State Park, the next 45 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.96 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 165 ft
- County
- Cecil County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.7221° N
- Longitude
- 75.8418° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Big Elk Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Chesapeake CityNDBC-CHCM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW1620CW1620
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.6 mi away/313 ft/148 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Churchville0W3
At an airfield/22.0 mi away/394 ft/229 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Elkton 6.8 NMD-CC-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/356 ft/191 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ConowingoCNWM2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.0 mi away/23 ft/142 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Maryland
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Big Elk Creek State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Elktontown, 8 mi
- North Easttown, 10 mi
- Rising Suntown, 12 mi
- Charlestowntown, 12 mi
- Chesapeake Citytown, 14 mi
- Perryvilletown, 16 mi
- Port Deposittown, 17 mi
- Havre de Gracecity, 19 mi
- Darlingtoncommunity, 20 mi
- Ceciltontown, 22 mi
- Aberdeencity, 23 mi
- Aberdeen Proving Groundcommunity, 23 mi