US 220 SB @ Loyalsock CreekPA075
Beside a road/12.8 mi away/1,506 ft/620 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Parks/Pennsylvania/Ricketts Glen State Park
Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania
State Park in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania52°
71°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 9 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 5 PM (74%).
Now. Ricketts Glen State Park is 52° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 9 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 44°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
95%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
52feels52
37%
Today
Oct 16
7149
99%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
4436
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5327
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5632
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6136
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6038
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5838
mostly clear day
52°
71°49°
44°36°
53°27°
56°32°
61°36°
60°38°
58°38°
As of 6:00 AM in Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
The air at Ricketts Glen State Park
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre (PA), 26 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- 34TodayOct 16
- 13SatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ricketts Glen State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ricketts Glen State Park, the next 45 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 6 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 20 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,126 ft
- County
- Luzerne County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Latitude
- 41.3584° N
- Longitude
- 76.2341° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Ricketts Glen State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/755 ft/1,371 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.6 mi away/1,161 ft/965 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/26.6 mi away/951 ft/1,175 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sweet Valley 0.0 NPA-LZ-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/1,333 ft/793 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LaporteLAPP1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.2 mi away/1,936 ft/190 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Ricketts Glen State Park
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