Beside a road/2.3 mi away/213 ft/89 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Chevy Chase until 8:45 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, the chance peaking at 54% around 8 PM.
Now. Chevy Chase is 57° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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 8:00 AM in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: 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 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chevy Chase, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Chevy Chase, 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
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/213 ft/89 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station TLEEKTOWNTLEEKTOWN
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/326 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/48 ft/254 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/12.7 mi away/105 ft/197 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/14.7 mi away/215 ft/87 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chevy Chase 1.2 SWMD-MG-152
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/330 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/138 ft/164 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Chevy Chase, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.5 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 95 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 500 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze 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.