MD 404 E - East of Newtown Road MD US MDDOTMD123
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/49 ft/47 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Wye Oak State Park until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM, the chance peaking at 76% around 6 AM.
Now. Wye Oak State Park is 73° and mostly clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%). Rain is possible Monday (38%), Tuesday (37%) and Thursday (33%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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.
As of 7:00 PM in Wye Oak State Park, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Upper Eastern Shore (MD), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Wye Oak State Park, 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 now4 instruments
MD 404 E - East of Newtown Road MD US MDDOTMD123
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/49 ft/47 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8736FW8736
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/29 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Tuckahoe RAWSTUKM2
A remote fire weather station/8.4 mi away/46 ft/44 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
EastonESN
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/72 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Queenstown 3SQNSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/10 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Queenstown 2.6 SMD-QA-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/15 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.