I-70 at I-695MD007
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/380 ft/128 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (69%).
Now. Patapsco Valley State Park is 58° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Metro Baltimore (MD), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Patapsco Valley 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 now5 instruments
I-70 at I-695MD007
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/380 ft/128 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6092GW6092
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/302 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.9 mi away/20 ft/232 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
BaltimoreNDBC-BLTM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/20.7 mi away/105 ft/147 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Catonsville 2.8 NNWMD-BL-70
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/397 ft/145 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CylburCYLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.9 mi away/295 ft/43 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.