Beside a road/15.4 mi away/656 ft/549 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Pennsylvania/Cowans Gap State Park
Cowans Gap State Park, Pennsylvania
State Park in Franklin County, Pennsylvania56°
62°/54°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 80° after 62° today.
Now. Cowans Gap State Park is 56° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 56°, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 80°, and the coolest Saturday, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (69%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
94%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
56feels56
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6254
50%
Fri
Oct 16
8054
69%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5142
24%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5632
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5936
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6439
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6443
mostly clear day
56°
62°54°
80°54°
51°42°
56°32°
59°36°
64°39°
64°43°
As of 10:00 PM in Cowans Gap State Park, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
The air at Cowans Gap State Park
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 27 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone16Good20 ppb23.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 22SunOct 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 Cowans Gap State Park
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cowans Gap State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 2 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.75 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,205 ft
- County
- Franklin County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Latitude
- 39.9996° N
- Longitude
- 77.9204° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cowans Gap State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW5759EW5759
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/808 ft/397 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/29.4 mi away/1,503 ft/298 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raystown Branch Juniata AT Raystown Lake - DamRTDP1
At a dam/30.4 mi away/833 ft/372 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chambersburg 4.9 WSWPA-FN-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/677 ft/528 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chambersburg 1 ESECHMP1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.5 mi away/643 ft/562 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
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Near Cowans Gap State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Burnt Cabinscommunity, 6 mi
- Fort Loudoncommunity, 6 mi
- McConnellsburgborough, 6 mi
- Hustontowncommunity, 7 mi
- Mercersburgborough, 12 mi
- Shade Gapborough, 13 mi
- Three Springsborough, 14 mi
- Wells Tannerycommunity, 14 mi
- Valley-Hiborough, 15 mi
- Chambersburgborough, 15 mi
- Marioncommunity, 15 mi
- Saltilloborough, 15 mi