I-68 at Md 55MD035
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/1,594 ft/142 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Ocean until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ocean is 52° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 41° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Ocean, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Western Maryland (MD), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ocean, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ocean, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-68 at Md 55MD035
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/1,594 ft/142 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/963 ft/773 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Branch Potomac River Near Cumberland01603000
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.2 mi away/584 ft/1,152 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CumberlandCBE
At an airfield/9.8 mi away/775 ft/961 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lonaconing 0.3 NNWMD-AL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,562 ft/174 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FrostburgFRSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/2,182 ft/446 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.8 mi from Ocean, Maryland. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,800 ft, broken at 4,400 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
58.0 F with a dew point of 45.7 F, 64 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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.