Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/1.6 mi away/105 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
National Capital Parks, Maryland
Unit of the national park system in Prince George's County, Maryland34°
82°/58°
Overcast·
Feels like 34°·Light air 1 mph SE
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (64%).
Now. National Capital Parks is 34° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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.
0UV Low
17Air quality
96%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
34feels34
16%
Today
Oct 16
8258
89%
Sat
Oct 17
5448
66%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5738
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5941
11%
Tue
Oct 20
6545
11%
Wed
Oct 21
6548
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6348
mostly clear day
34°
82°58°
54°48°
57°38°
59°41°
65°45°
65°48°
63°48°
As of 12:00 AM in National Capital Parks, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at National Capital Parks
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 7 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good11.5 mi
- Ozone17Good7 ppb1.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.9 ppb1.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb1.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm1.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 17SatOct 17
- 28SunOct 18
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 National Capital Parks
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at National Capital Parks, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- Unit of the national park system
- Area
- 9.12 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 124 ft
- Also in
- District of Columbia
- County
- Prince George's County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.0391° N
- Longitude
- 76.8492° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest National Capital Parks, 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
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/1.7 mi away/215 ft/91 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-95 / 495 NB past MD 201MD125
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/79 ft/45 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6819FW6819
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/156 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/48 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Laurel 1.5 SEMD-PG-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/203 ft/79 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/138 ft/14 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
Elsewhere in Maryland
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near National Capital Parks
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- South Laurelcommunity, 2 mi
- Konterracommunity, 3 mi
- Greenbeltcity, 3 mi
- Seabrookcommunity, 4 mi
- Laurelcity, 4 mi
- Bowiecity, 4 mi
- Glenn Dalecommunity, 5 mi
- Berwyn Heightstown, 5 mi
- Beltsvillecommunity, 5 mi
- Maryland Citycommunity, 5 mi
- Calvertoncommunity, 5 mi
- Lanhamcommunity, 5 mi