Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/963 ft/202 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 83° today.
Now. Ellerslie is 59° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Ellerslie, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Western Maryland (MD), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ellerslie, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ellerslie, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/963 ft/202 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-68 W-2 Mi Prior to Ex. 47MD144
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/823 ft/62 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
North Branch Potomac River Near Cumberland01603000
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.6 mi away/584 ft/177 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CumberlandCBE
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/775 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cumberland 0.4 WNWMD-AL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/676 ft/85 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
South CumberlandCBLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/705 ft/56 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.1 mi from Ellerslie, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 2 mi.
57.6 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Cumberland, 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.