Big KnobBGNP1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.6 mi away/2,159 ft/1,329 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/Pennsylvania/Colonel Denning State Park
Colonel Denning State Park, Pennsylvania
State Park in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 possible. * WHERE...A portion of central Pennsylvania. * WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take protective measures now as freezing temperatures could damage or kill tender plants and vegetation.
72°
84°/57°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 72°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Colonel Denning State Park until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 84° today.
Now. Colonel Denning State Park is 72° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
26Air quality
73%Humidity
84%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
72feels72
37%
Today
Oct 16
8457
91%
Sat
Oct 17
5643
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
6135
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6438
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6941
10%
Wed
Oct 21
6745
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6544
14%
72°
84°57°
56°43°
61°35°
64°38°
69°41°
67°45°
65°44°
As of 5:00 PM in Colonel Denning State Park, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
The air at Colonel Denning State Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, State College (PA), 42 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good12.5 mi
- Ozone26Good34 ppb22.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
GoodModerate
- 29YesterdayOct 15
- 38TodayOct 16
- 2SatOct 17
- 5SunOct 18
- 15MonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Colonel Denning State Park
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
Visibility
How far you can see at Colonel Denning State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.47 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 830 ft
- County
- Cumberland County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Latitude
- 40.2796° N
- Longitude
- 77.4205° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Colonel Denning State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-81 S/B @ MM 40 Newville Roadsi PA US PADOTPA023
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/620 ft/210 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW5802EW5802
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/498 ft/332 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ReedsvilleRVL
At an airfield/29.5 mi away/810 ft/20 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Loysville 0.8 ESEPA-PR-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/592 ft/238 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ShippensburgSPBP1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/705 ft/125 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Shippensburg (SPBP1), 16.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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