Citizen station FW6165FW6165
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/351 ft/73 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Matthew Henson State Park, Maryland
State Park in Montgomery County, MarylandMonitoring message only. Please disregard.
Monitoring message only. Please disregard.
57°
82°/58°
Overcast·
Feels like 57°·Light air 2 mph S
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Matthew Henson State Park until 5:15 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (59%).
Now. Matthew Henson State Park is 57° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
13Air quality
98%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
57feels57
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8258
89%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5447
43%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5637
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5840
20%
Tue
Oct 20
6444
13%
Wed
Oct 21
6447
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6348
11%
57°
82°58°
54°47°
56°37°
58°40°
64°44°
64°47°
63°48°
As of 5:00 AM in Matthew Henson State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Matthew Henson State Park
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 6 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good3.4 mi
- Ozone13Good11 ppb3.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.4 ppb10.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb10.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm10.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 17SatOct 17
- 28SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 40 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Matthew Henson State Park
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
Visibility
How far you can see at Matthew Henson State Park, the next 40 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.35 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 278 ft
- County
- Montgomery County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.0673° N
- Longitude
- 77.0833° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Matthew Henson State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/331 ft/53 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/539 ft/261 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/13.0 mi away/105 ft/173 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/13.9 mi away/215 ft/63 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Spring 3.7 NNWMD-MG-101
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/411 ft/133 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/138 ft/140 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 Matthew Henson State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Leisure Worldcommunity, 3 mi
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