I 95 S - past MD 212MD003
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/184 ft/50 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (63%).
Now. Beltsville is 44° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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. 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.
As of 2:00 AM in Beltsville, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Beltsville, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Beltsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I 95 S - past MD 212MD003
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/184 ft/50 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2838GW2838
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/105 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/48 ft/186 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/5.1 mi away/105 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/6.3 mi away/215 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Beltsville 1.4 NNWMD-PG-82
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/203 ft/31 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/138 ft/96 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.4 mi from Beltsville, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,500 ft; the ceiling is 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 59.5 F, 95 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
Calm.
The full report of College Park, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.