Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/476 ft/82 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 83° today.
Now. Mount Briar is 59° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 4 mph, gusting to 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Mount Briar, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Martinsburg (WV), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Briar, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Briar, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/476 ft/82 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
IS 70 WB at South MountainMD064
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/797 ft/239 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW1783EW1783
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/432 ft/126 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/302 ft/256 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sharpsburg 0.2 ENEMD-WH-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/410 ft/148 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hagerstown 1EHGCM2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/541 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.8 mi from Mount Briar, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 600 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.4 F with a dew point of 59.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the south (170 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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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.