US-301 NB S of MD-6MD139
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/148 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Thomas Stone National Historic Site is 58° and clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:27 AM after midnight. 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. The bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.91 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Thomas Stone National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
US-301 NB S of MD-6MD139
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/148 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW5327FW5327
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/172 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CedarvilleCVLM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.5 mi away/233 ft/85 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Andrews AFBADW
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/282 ft/134 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/35.2 mi away/105 ft/43 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Port Tobacco Village 2.0 WSWMD-CH-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/167 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MechanicsvilleMECM2
At a cooperative observer's station/18.9 mi away/135 ft/13 ft below 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.