Beside a road/1.8 mi away/331 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Glenmont until 4:15 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (61%).
Now. Glenmont is 55° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (61%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. 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. 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 4:00 AM in Glenmont, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 mile Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Glenmont, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Glenmont, 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
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/331 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6165FW6165
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/351 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/48 ft/322 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/11.0 mi away/105 ft/265 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/11.9 mi away/215 ft/155 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Spring 5.6 NMD-MG-71
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/330 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/138 ft/232 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Glenmont, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 900 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air 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.