Citizen station EW9743EW9743
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.4 mi away/559 ft/381 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/Pennsylvania/Buchanan's Birthplace State Park
Buchanan's Birthplace State Park, Pennsylvania
State Park in Franklin County, Pennsylvania58°
59°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 58°·Light air 2 mph N
Now. Buchanan's Birthplace State Park is 58° and clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 66°, and the coolest Saturday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
32Air quality
32%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
58feels58
now, clear
Today
Oct 18
5935
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6436
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6641
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6241
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6439
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
6143
clear day
Sat
Oct 24
5838
clear day
58°
59°35°
64°36°
66°41°
62°41°
64°39°
61°43°
58°38°
As of 5:00 PM in Buchanan's Birthplace State Park, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
The air at Buchanan's Birthplace State Park
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 18 miles off.
32Good
- Ozone32Good38 ppb24.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 17
- 22TodayOct 18
- 33MonOct 19
- 33TueOct 20
- 33WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buchanan's Birthplace State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buchanan's Birthplace State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 875,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 940 ft
- County
- Franklin County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Latitude
- 39.8732° N
- Longitude
- 77.9536° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buchanan's Birthplace State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/656 ft/284 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/29.5 mi away/1,141 ft/201 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raystown Branch Juniata AT Raystown Lake - DamRTDP1
At a dam/38.9 mi away/833 ft/107 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mcconnellsburg 6.1 WPA-FL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/971 ft/31 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chambersburg 1 ESECHMP1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.2 mi away/643 ft/297 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 Pennsylvania
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buchanan's Birthplace State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mercersburgborough, 4 mi
- Fort Loudoncommunity, 4 mi
- McConnellsburgborough, 5 mi
- Whitetailski area, 8 mi
- Needmorecommunity, 10 mi
- Hustontowncommunity, 13 mi
- Greencastleborough, 13 mi
- Marioncommunity, 13 mi
- Burnt Cabinscommunity, 14 mi
- Warfordsburgcommunity, 15 mi
- State Linecommunity, 16 mi
- Chambersburgborough, 16 mi