Citizen station FW2255FW2255
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/40 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 84° after 66° today.
Now. Mason Neck State Park is 61° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 61°, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 84°, and the coolest Saturday, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (69%) and Saturday (71%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Mason Neck State Park, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 22 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Mason Neck State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW2255FW2255
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/40 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/69 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Triangle - Prince William RAWSPWRV2
A remote fire weather station/10.6 mi away/229 ft/195 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lorton 2.3 SEVA-FX-132
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/89 ft/55 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ManassasMNNV2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.3 mi away/256 ft/222 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.