IS 97 N prior to Hawkins RoadMD118
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/144 ft/136 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Crownsville until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (66%).
Now. Crownsville is 72° and partly cloudy at 2 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (60%). Rain is possible Monday (33%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 PM in Crownsville, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Metro Baltimore (MD), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Crownsville, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Crownsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
IS 97 N prior to Hawkins RoadMD118
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/144 ft/136 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station K3TXT-1K3TXT-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/29 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnnapolisNAK
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/4 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AnnapolisNDBC-APAM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/14.1 mi away/105 ft/97 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Crownsville 1.5 NMD-AA-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/168 ft/160 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ferndale - BWI SnowBSPM2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/118 ft/110 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Crownsville, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the south (180 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Annapolis, 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.