I-68 at Md 55MD035
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/1,594 ft/487 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Dans Mountain State Park, Maryland
State Park in Allegany County, Maryland* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s are possible. * WHERE...Portions of north central and western Maryland, central, northwest, and western Virginia, and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
52°
49°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dans Mountain State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dans Mountain State Park is 52° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 40° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
71%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
52feels52
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
4940
40%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5631
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6134
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6537
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6240
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6339
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
6342
mostly clear day
52°
49°40°
56°31°
61°34°
65°37°
62°40°
63°39°
63°42°
As of 12:00 AM in Dans Mountain State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Dans Mountain State Park
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Western Maryland (MD), 5 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good10.6 mi
- Ozone21Good19 ppb10.6 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.4 ppb10.6 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb10.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 16
- 11TodayOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 33MonOct 19
- 28TueOct 20
- 28WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dans Mountain State Park
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.25in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 12%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dans Mountain State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.74 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,081 ft
- County
- Allegany County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.5630° N
- Longitude
- 78.9481° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Dans Mountain State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/963 ft/1,118 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Branch Potomac River Near Cumberland01603000
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.2 mi away/584 ft/1,497 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CumberlandCBE
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/775 ft/1,306 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lonaconing 2.3 ESEMD-AL-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/2,562 ft/481 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FrostburgFRSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/2,182 ft/101 ft above 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
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