GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/2.8 mi away/539 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Laytonsville until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. 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. Laytonsville is 75° and mostly clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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 2:00 PM in Laytonsville, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Laytonsville, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Laytonsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
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GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/2.8 mi away/539 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW4047CW4047
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/601 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MD-200 WB at Muncaster Mill RdMD069
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/427 ft/160 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tenmile Creek Precip Gage At Clarksburg391407077174001
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/599 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/20.6 mi away/105 ft/482 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Montgomery Village 1.1 ENEMD-MG-138
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/509 ft/78 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Damascus 3 SSWDMAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/676 ft/89 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.8 mi from Laytonsville, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
79.0 F with a dew point of 69.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Gaithersburg, 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.