Citizen station GW4058GW4058
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/556 ft/176 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Patuxent River State Park, Maryland
State Park in Montgomery County, MarylandMonitoring message only. Please disregard.
Monitoring message only. Please disregard.
56°
82°/57°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Light air 3 mph SSE
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Patuxent River State Park until 1:35 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 (62%).
Now. Patuxent River State Park is 56° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (50%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
99%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
56feels56
16%
Today
Oct 16
8257
87%
Sat
Oct 17
5447
50%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5636
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5939
10%
Tue
Oct 20
6543
10%
Wed
Oct 21
6546
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6346
mostly clear day
56°
82°57°
54°47°
56°36°
59°39°
65°43°
65°46°
63°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Patuxent River State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Patuxent River State Park
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 14 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good16.1 mi
- Ozone16Good10 ppb9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.9 ppb16.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb16.1 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm13.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 8, good.
GoodModerate
- 8YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 17SatOct 17
- 28SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Patuxent River State Park
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 0.09in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 78%
Visibility
How far you can see at Patuxent River State Park, the next 44 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 3 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 380 ft
- County
- Montgomery County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.2372° N
- Longitude
- 77.0560° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Patuxent River State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-70 at MD-32MD052
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/520 ft/140 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/7.6 mi away/539 ft/159 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tenmile Creek Precip Gage At Clarksburg391407077174001
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/599 ft/219 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/18.8 mi away/105 ft/275 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Glenwood 1.2 SSWMD-HW-47
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/495 ft/115 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Damascus 3 SSWDMAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/676 ft/296 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 Patuxent River State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Brookevilletown, 4 mi
- Laytonsvilletown, 5 mi
- Olneycommunity, 6 mi
- Highlandcommunity, 6 mi
- Ashton-Sandy Springcommunity, 7 mi
- Lisboncommunity, 7 mi
- Flower Hillcommunity, 8 mi
- Damascuscommunity, 8 mi
- Redlandcommunity, 8 mi
- Montgomery Villagecommunity, 9 mi
- Leisure Worldcommunity, 9 mi
- Washington Grovetown, 9 mi