I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/135 ft/172 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Burnt Mills until 4:15 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (62%).
Now. Burnt Mills is 50° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 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 (65%).
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 4:00 AM in Burnt Mills, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 1 mile 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
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Burnt Mills, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Burnt Mills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/135 ft/172 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2809EW2809
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/385 ft/78 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/48 ft/259 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/8.1 mi away/105 ft/202 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/9.5 mi away/215 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Spring 1.5 NEMD-MG-94
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/253 ft/54 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/138 ft/169 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.5 mi from Burnt Mills, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 900 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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.