Beside a road/1.0 mi away/269 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (58%).
Now. Morningside is 53° and light drizzle at 1 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (77%).
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 1:00 AM in Morningside, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Morningside, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Morningside, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/269 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Andrews AFBADW
At an airfield/1.8 mi away/282 ft/19 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KB3PHDKB3PHD
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/63 ft/200 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CedarvilleCVLM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/233 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/13.1 mi away/105 ft/158 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Suitland 2.1 SEMD-PG-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/255 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bristol/Jug Bay Met SensorsBSLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/-20 ft/283 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.8 mi from Morningside, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,400 ft, overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 57.2 F, 88 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Andrews AFB, 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.