Parks/Maryland/Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park

Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park, Maryland

State Park in Howard County, Maryland

56° 63°/57°

Overcast· Feels like 56°·Light air 3 mph SE

Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow evening, from about 7 PM (50%).

Now. Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip is 56° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the southeast at 3 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 58°, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (85%). Rain is possible Saturday (46%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

16Air quality

100%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

11:00 PM

56feels56

13%

Today

Oct 15

6357

56%

Fri

Oct 16

8156

85%

Sat

Oct 17

5346

46%

15mph

Sun

Oct 18

5635

Mon

Oct 19

5838

10%

Tue

Oct 20

6442

10%

Wed

Oct 21

6445

56°

63°57°

81°56°

53°46°

56°35°

58°38°

64°42°

64°45°

As of 11:00 PM in Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park, Maryland.

Air quality

The air at Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park

Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 17 miles off.

16Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)-12.2 mi
Ozone16Good14 ppb11 mi
Nitrogen dioxide8Good9.5 ppb19.2 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb19.8 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm16.5 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.

GoodModerate

42YesterdayOct 14
44TodayOct 15
33FriOct 16
11SatOct 17
17SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 46 hours

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

Precipitation

What has fallen at Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park

0.08 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.08in
Last 3 days: 0.08in

Visibility

How far you can see at Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park, the next 46 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 3 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.

Park

Designation: State Park
Area: 304,000 sq ft
Height at its point: 584 ft
County: Howard County
State: Maryland
Latitude: 39.2860° N
Longitude: 77.0948° W

What is measuring near here

The 7 instruments nearest Jones Road Decommissioned Airstrip, Patuxent River State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.

measured now5 instruments

Citizen station EW1476EW1476

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/676 ft/92 ft above here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

I-70 at MD-27MD017

Beside a road/6.3 mi away/811 ft/227 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

GaithersburgGAI

At an airfield/9.0 mi away/539 ft/45 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Tenmile Creek Precip Gage At Clarksburg391407077174001

At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/599 ft/15 ft above here