I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/135 ft/166 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Four Corners until 9:15 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 82° today.
Now. Four Corners is 58° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (58%).
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. 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 9:00 PM in Four Corners, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Four Corners, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Four Corners, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/135 ft/166 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2809EW2809
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/385 ft/84 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/5.7 mi away/48 ft/253 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/8.7 mi away/105 ft/196 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/10.3 mi away/215 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Spring 1.2 NNEMD-MG-163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/333 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/138 ft/163 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.7 mi from Four Corners, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,800 ft, broken at 6,500 ft, overcast at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.7 F with a dew point of 59.4 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,800 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light 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.