Beside a road/3.3 mi away/213 ft/115 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Chevy Chase Village until 7:25 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (58%).
Now. Chevy Chase Village is 63° and heavy rain at 7 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 7 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 61): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (61%).
The sky now. 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. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Chevy Chase Village, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 61, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chevy Chase Village, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Chevy Chase Village, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/213 ft/115 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station TLEEKTOWNTLEEKTOWN
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/326 ft/2 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/48 ft/280 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/12.8 mi away/105 ft/223 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/15.0 mi away/215 ft/113 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/1.0 mi away/330 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/138 ft/190 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Chevy Chase Village, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft, broken at 3,800 ft, broken at 4,400 ft; the ceiling is 3,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 64.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
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.