US-50 @ I-95MD000
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/138 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Mitchellville is 35° and mostly cloudy at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 8 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:23 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Mitchellville, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, 0.33 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mitchellville, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Mitchellville, 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 now5 instruments
US-50 @ I-95MD000
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/138 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6819FW6819
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/156 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/5.5 mi away/105 ft/27 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
College ParkCGS
At an airfield/6.3 mi away/48 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/7.9 mi away/215 ft/83 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lanham-Seabrook 0.7 SEMD-PG-78
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/164 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/138 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.3 mi from Mitchellville, Maryland. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 10:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.2 F with a dew point of 37.8 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 12,000 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
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.