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At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Nanticoke Acres, Maryland
Community in Wicomico County, MarylandSpecial Marine Warning, in full
SMWLWX The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a * Special Marine Warning for... Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith Point VA... Chesapeake Bay from North Beach to Drum Point MD... Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River... Patuxent River to Broomes Island MD... Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island... Tidal Potomac from Cobb Island MD to Smith Point VA... Tidal Potomac from Indian Head to Cobb Island MD... * Until 930 PM EDT. * At 732 PM EDT, a gust front was located along a line extending from 7 nm northeast of Port Tobacco River to near Aquia Creek to 23 nm west of Brent Point, moving southeast at 25 knots. This will come with a wind shift to the northwest. HAZARD...Wind gusts 34 knots or greater. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Boaters in small craft could be thrown overboard by suddenly higher winds and waves capsizing their vessel. * Locations impacted include... Yeocomico River, Breton Bay, Hooper Island Light, Crisfield, Southwest Middle Grounds, Cuckold Creek, Ewell, Coltons Point, Coles Point, Saint George Island, Point No Point, Calvert Cliffs, The Targets, Richland Point Buoy, Greenwell State Park, Saint Leonard Creek, Saint Clements Bay, Smith Island, Piney Point, and Deep Hole.
Move to safe harbor until hazardous weather passes.
76°
82°/60°
Clear·
Feels like 76°·Light breeze 8 mph SSW
Alert. A Special Marine Warning is in force for Nanticoke Acres until 9:30 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 80% around 6 AM.
Now. Nanticoke Acres is 76° and clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 7 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 65): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (88%). Rain is possible Monday (48%), Tuesday (43%), Wednesday (33%) and Thursday (37%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
65Air quality
87%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
76feels76
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8260
89%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5647
88%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
5941
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6045
48%
18mph
Tue
Oct 20
6448
43%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
6452
33%
16mph
Thu
Oct 22
6251
37%
15mph
76°
82°60°
56°47°
59°41°
60°45°
64°48°
64°52°
62°51°
As of 7:00 PM in Nanticoke Acres, Maryland.
Air quality
The air at Nanticoke Acres
Index 65, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Lower Eastern Shore (MD), 30 miles off.
65Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)65Moderate-
- Ozone33Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
- 39TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 22MonOct 19
- 17TueOct 20
- 17WedOct 21
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Nanticoke Acres
1.50 in in the last 24 hours, 1.65 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.50in
- Last 3 days
- 1.65in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 91%
Visibility
How far you can see at Nanticoke Acres, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Nanticoke Acres, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Nanticoke Acres, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank665of 736
Citizen station CW1767CW1767
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.5 mi away/35 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-50 at MD-331MD038
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/10 ft/1 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CambridgeCGE
At an airfield/20.5 mi away/19 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Deal Island 0.2 SSEMD-SS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/5 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Princess AnnePRAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.7 mi away/16 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Cambridge, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.5 mi from Nanticoke Acres, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
The air
69.8 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Cambridge, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Maryland
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