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Beside a road/0.5 mi away/1,202 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
South Mountain State Park, Maryland
State Park in Washington County, Maryland56°
60°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Light breeze 4 mph SSE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees warmer: a high of 79° after 60° today.
Now. South Mountain State Park is 56° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 57°, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Saturday, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (67%). Rain is possible Saturday (33%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
95%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
56feels56
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6055
57%
Fri
Oct 16
7955
67%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5044
33%
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
5434
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5636
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6241
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6245
mostly clear day
56°
60°55°
79°55°
50°44°
54°34°
56°36°
62°41°
62°45°
As of 10:00 PM in South Mountain State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at South Mountain State Park
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 17 miles off.
17Good
- Ozone17Good9 ppb15.3 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 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Mountain State Park
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
Visibility
How far you can see at South Mountain State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,182 ft
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Maryland
- Latitude
- 39.5462° N
- Longitude
- 77.6069° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest South Mountain State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW3881FW3881
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,700 ft/518 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/476 ft/706 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Camp DavidRSP
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/1,841 ft/659 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Myersville 2.2 NNWMD-FR-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,092 ft/90 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hagerstown 1EHGCM2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/541 ft/641 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 South Mountain State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mount Lenacommunity, 1 mi
- Maplevillecommunity, 2 mi
- San Marcommunity, 2 mi
- Bagtowncommunity, 3 mi
- Myersvilletown, 3 mi
- Beaver Creekcommunity, 3 mi
- Boonsborotown, 4 mi
- Mount Aetnacommunity, 4 mi
- Jugtowncommunity, 5 mi
- Pondsvillecommunity, 5 mi
- Robinwoodcommunity, 6 mi
- Breathedsvillecommunity, 6 mi