Citizen station FW3819FW3819
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/175 ft/107 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Friendship Heights Village until 11:35 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Friendship Heights Village is 57° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 70°, and the coolest Friday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 61% lit, and sets at 1:28 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Friendship Heights Village, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Friendship Heights Village, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Friendship Heights Village, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW3819FW3819
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/175 ft/107 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/213 ft/69 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/48 ft/234 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/13.4 mi away/105 ft/177 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/15.6 mi away/215 ft/67 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/1.3 mi away/330 ft/48 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/138 ft/144 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.1 mi from Friendship Heights Village, Maryland. From its report of Oct 19, 2026, 11:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.3 F with a dew point of 33.4 F, 36 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,100 ft up.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 7 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.