I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/135 ft/139 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Hillandale until 6:45 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 (58%).
Now. Hillandale is 51° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 3 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 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%).
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 6:00 AM in Hillandale, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 1 mile 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
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hillandale, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hillandale, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-495 I/L prior to MD 650MD128
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/135 ft/139 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2809EW2809
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/385 ft/111 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/48 ft/226 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/6.5 mi away/105 ft/169 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/8.2 mi away/215 ft/59 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Adelphi 1.4 NMD-PG-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/303 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/138 ft/136 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.0 mi from Hillandale, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 7 mi.
62.2 F with a dew point of 61.3 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 500 ft.
From the south (180 degrees) at 6 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.