I-68 at SavageMD049
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/2,454 ft/554 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 77° today.
Now. Midlothian is 59° and fog at 5 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Midlothian, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Western Maryland (MD), 2 miles 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 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Midlothian, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Midlothian, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-68 at SavageMD049
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/2,454 ft/554 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/963 ft/937 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Branch Potomac River Near Cumberland01603000
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.5 mi away/584 ft/1,316 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CumberlandCBE
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/775 ft/1,125 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FrostburgFRSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/2,182 ft/282 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lonaconing 0.3 NNWMD-AL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,562 ft/338 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.2 mi from Midlothian, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 1/2 mi.
57.4 F with a dew point of 56.7 F, 98 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 200 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Cumberland, 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.